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Article: Are Smoking and Panic Attacks Related?
- Article from:
- Psychiatric Medicine in Primary Care
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Are Smoking and Panic Attacks Related?
Abstract & Commentary
Source: Breslau N, et al. Smoking and panic attacks. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1999;56:1141-1147.
Further clarification of the relationship between smoking and panic attacks is important for patient education. For example, daily smoking might cause panic attacks, panic attacks might increase the risk for daily smoking, or, if there is an association between panic attacks and smoking, it might be noncausal: smoking and panic attacks might be linked by a shared etiology. Although observational studies cannot definitively test causal hypotheses, they can dampen the plausibility of some ...