New figures from Aarhus University show that smoking increases the risk of developing depression by more than 100 per cent. Fortunately you can reduce that risk significantly, if you quit smoking.
This author doesn’t seem to be aware that correlation does not equal causation.
He know the difference, that is the whole point of the study :
|However, researchers have not been able to agree on whether smoking causes depression or other mental disorders, **or **whether we smoke because we need to lessen the symptoms of a latent mental disorder.
But now we know.|
Your experience though valid, is not a study about 350 000 people. And I’d rather believe the scientists (who spent their life interpreting data like that) when they say :
"Smoking typically comes before the mental illness. In fact, a long time before.
He know the difference, that is the whole point of the study :
Your experience though valid, is not a study about 350 000 people. And I’d rather believe the scientists (who spent their life interpreting data like that) when they say :