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Ciggerettes don't do any of this:
Trouble remembering things
Slowed reaction time
Difficulty concentrating
Sleepiness
Anxiety
Paranoia (feeling that people are "out to get you")
Altered time perception
Red, bloodshot eyes
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Smoking and Anxiety Panic Attacks
LUNG cancer, hypertension, heart disease, birth defects—we're all too familiar with the perils of smoking. But add to that list a frightening new concern. Mental illness. According to some controversial new findings, if smoking doesn't kill you, it may, quite literally, drive you to despair.



The tobacco industry openly pushes its product as something to lift your mood and soothe anxiety. But the short-term feel-good factor may mask the truth: that smoking may worsen or even trigger anxiety disorders, panic attacks and depression, perhaps even schizophrenia.

Cigarettes and mental illness have always tended to go together. An estimated 1.25 billion people smoke worldwide including roughly a quarter of Britons and Americans. Yet people who are depressed or anxious are twice as likely to smoke, and up to 88 per cent of those with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are smokers. A recent American survey concluded that around half of all cigarettes burn in the fingers of those with mental illness.

But the big question is why? The usual story is that the illness comes first. Mentally ill people take up smoking, or smoke more, to alleviate some of their distress. Even when smoking seems to start before the illness, most doctors believe that early but invisible symptoms of the disorder spark the desire to light up. But perhaps something more sinister is going on.

A growing band of researchers claim that smoking is the cause, not the consequence of clinical depression and several forms of anxiety. “We know a lot about the effects of smoking on physical health, and now we are also starting to see the adverse effects in new research on mental illness,” says epidemiologist Naomi Breslau, director of research at the Henry Ford Health Care System in Detroit.

Just throwing this out there, ladies and gentlemen, but this is a thread is necro. And BJF hasn't even been here in months, its not exactly fair game to argue with someone who is probably not going to respond...

Hmmmm. In a few posts I read where she was arguing with AG, it appears that Bethie is in favour of drug prohibition. Perhaps she could argue in his place?

Just throwing this out there, ladies and gentlemen, but this thread is necro. And BJF hasn't even been here in months, its not exactly fair game to argue with someone who is probably not going to respond...

a lot of prescription drugs are acquired illegally. In fact many abusers are eventually refused further prescription drugs and so they go to the street to find them