Smokers more likely to feel suicidal: Study

“A clear and alarming link between smoking and suicide”, they found. “Campaigns for reducing smoking should also point to the elevated risk of suicidality,” they say.

Of course there is a link between smoking and suicide. There is also an alarming link between hunger and poverty, so obviously hunger causes poverty.

Or maybe it is the other way around?
“The more a person smoked, the likelier he or she would have suicidal thoughts.”

Maybe, just maybe, it’s because suicidal people are depressed and stressed and plain smoke more?

There are smokers out there who are rich, have fulfilling lives, happy families and meaningful relationships with those around them. Are they more likely to commit suicide because of smoking? I think not.

There are depressed people out there who feel helpless and out-of-control of themselves, their lives and their happiness. These people are far more likely to smoke, drink and abuse drugs heavily.

I’m sure if these researchers did a study in a bar, they’d find that the heaviest drinkers have the most suicidal tendencies. Drinking more gives you suicidal tendencies then, certainly!

Just because there is a co-relation between A and B does not in any way prove that A causes B. B could cause A, or A and B could both be caused by C.

Who is paying these guys? They ought to get their funding cut.