It’s no secret that smoking cigarettes can ruin your body.
The list of illnesses that smoking causes — heart disease, stroke, diabetes, emphysema, bronchitis and several types of cancer — is long and troubling.
However, most people don’t realize that smoking is also associated with mental illness.
In recent years, studies have suggested that there’s a strong link between the two.
But researchers haven’t been able to decide whether smoking causes mental disorders, or if individuals who already have a mental disorder smoke to ease their symptoms.