Mentally ill people more likely to be smokers: Report

People with mental illness are 70% more likely to smoke cigarettes than people without mental illness, two federal health agencies reported on Tuesday. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration show that one of every three adults with mental illness smokes, compared with one in five adults without mental illness.

Adults with mental illness smoke about a third of all the cigarettes in the US, and they smoke more cigarettes per month and are significantly less likely to quit than people without mental illness, the report said. There are nearly 46 million adults with mental illness in the US, about a fifth of the population.

"Many people with mental illness are at greater risk of dying early from smoking than from their mental health conditions," said Dr Thomas R Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control. The report is based on information from National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which interviewed 138,000 adults from 2009 to 2011.

People were asked 14 questions to assess psychological distress and disability , and were deemed to have mental illness if their responses indicated they had a mental, behaviour or emotional disorder in the past 12 months. Those with substance abuse or developmental disorders were excluded. Patients in psychiatric hospitals or people in military were not included. People who reported smoking all or part of a cigarette in the previous 30 days were counted as smokers.

The study found that smoking rates for people with mental illness were higher in states where overall smoking rates were high. NYT NEWS SERVICE

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