Individuals With Mental Disease have 70-percent More prone to Smoking

New information from two national health agencies unmasked that more than one in three adults (36 percent) with a mental illness light up, compared with about one in five adults (21 percent) with no mental illness.5 According to the CDC, there’s been immediate tobacco advertising to people with mental illness, a population that usually has more stressful living conditions that make it more difficult to stop.

Plus, the effects of nicotine could make individuals with mental disease a simple target for addiction. Smoking is even used by some mental health facilities like a incentive for improvement!