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People with schizophrenia smoke more than the average person. About 30 percent of people in the general population smoke, while nearly 90 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke. Smoking can cause health problems such as emphysema and throat, lung, and mouth cancers. It is theorized that people with schizophrenia smoke because smoking helps with either schizophrenic symptoms or side effects of medications for schizophrenia.

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