Smokers More Likely to Suffer from the Blues

A new research at the University of Navarra, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Harvard School of Public Health (USA) have linked depression to tobacco.

Their findings follow to a six-year study with 8,556 participants and suggest that smokers are 41 per cent more likely to suffer from depression than those that have never had a puff.

The study indicated that those who had given up tobacco more than a decade previously have a lesser probability of developing depression than those who have never smoked.

Besides this, the researchers found that an increase in tobacco use was correlated with a lessening of physical activity in the smoker’s free time.