According to the critical thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders, what is one possible explanation for the fact that people with psychological disorders have a much higher rate of smoking than people who do not have a psychological disorder?

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Parker Morgan

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21 January, 01:05

According to the critical thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders, what is one possible explanation for the fact that people with psychological disorders have a much higher rate of smoking than people who do not have a psychological disorder?

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Micah Werner · Answer 1

One possible explanation can be that those people who have any psychological disorder may try to utilize the smoking or cigarettes as a type of self-medication.

This can be strengthened by another fact presented in the Critical Thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders that those individuals who have many psychological disorders seem to have an elevated rate of smoking each day compared to those who have one or no disorder.