Study Finds That Smoking Is Linked With Risk Of Suicide

After an in-depth study among young people in Bavaria, German researchers found a clear and alarming link between smoking and the desire to kill oneself. The investigation, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is based on data from a detailed psychology study launched in 1995 among 3,021 people aged 14-24 who lived in Munich. They were interviewed again four years later, when 2,548 of the volunteers responded.

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Filed under: Depression on January 12th, 2008