According to the Critical Thinking Box on Smoking and Psychological

question 183

Multiple Choice

According to the Critical Thinking box on smoking and psychological disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)People who smoke a pack of cigarettes or more per day have a 50 percent chance of experiencing major depressive disorder.
• B)Forty-one percent of individuals with a current mental disorder are smokers, compared with 22 percent of people who have never been diagnosed with a mental disorder.
• C)Forty-four percent of all the cigarettes smoked in the United States are consumed by people with one or more mental disorders.
• D)People diagnosed with schizophrenia or another mental illness were four times less likely to smoke than the general population.

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