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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Smoking 10 cigarettes a day increases the risk of teenagers contracting psychosis or mental distress at a young age, according to a recent Finnish study.
According to the study conducted by researchers from the Finnish Academy of Scientific Research and published in the journal "Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica" scientific, the team of more than 9,000 young people, aged 15 to 16 years, revealed the relationship between smoking and psychosis, researchers found that smoking at least 10 cigarettes a day was associated with an increased risk of psychosis compared to non-smokers, and that the risk increased if young people started to smoke before the age of 13.
In the same context, the Director General of the Society for the Awareness of Drugs and Drugs in the Mecca Region, Dr. Salah bin Mohammed Al Sheikh, said that smoking, which he called "slow poison" , was one of the leading causes of many chronic diseases and not just psychosis, including cancer, lung diseases, heart disease and blood vessels, stressing that in his latest report, the World Health Organization had stated that, if left unchecked, tobacco could kill up to 8 million people a year, of which 80% in low- and middle-income countries by 2030.
Al-Sheikh said the KAFA branch in the governorates of the Mecca region is active all year round and is launching various programs and events to combat the dangers of tobacco and tobacco products in cooperation with some number of government and private agencies. And mobile.
It should be noted that psychosis is a disease called mental disorders affecting the human being. There is a defect in logical thought, or in sensory perception, in a state of loss of contact with reality, and in psychotic patients with hallucinations and adherence to false convictions, sometimes accompanied by these cases. Lack of vision and difficulty in social interactions with others and suffers from dysfunction in the performance of their daily tasks.
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