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Originally Posted by SlackDad
I stand corrected (and haven't the time to search for conflicting research  ), although the dopamine effect is accurate, which only goes to demonstrate that the relationship between nicotine-depression is complex.
Smoking, as I have discussed, is an important way of coping with everyday life and social relationships, especially when suffering from depression. Therefore it is not something that we can easily gloss over with puritanical policies based on unsound evidence. |
Indeed ... I knew someone who suffered quite badly mentally, had more than one psychotic episode, and was advised by his psychiatrist not to give up smoking.
However I think it is grasping just a little to suggest that restricting the places people can smoke will have a detrimental effect on the nation's mental health. It's not as if they're making it illegal. Yet.