Mental Illness Reduces Life Expectancy More Than Heavy Smoking

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 20:10 in Health & Medicine

If we care about saving lives, we'd be better off funding more mental health services than we are taxing and penalizing cigarettes companies in order to subsidize the industry that has been built to market against cigarettes. Serious mental illnesses reduce life expectancy by 10-20 years, worse than that for heavy smoking. read more

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