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Even non-daily puffers 16 times more likely to be hazardous drinkers, study says
Jump to full article: HealthDay [HealthScout], 2008-09-23
Intro: Young adults who are casual smokers are 16 times more likely than nonsmokers to be hazardous drinkers and five times more likely to have alcohol-use disorders (AUDs), a U.S. study finds.
Sherry A. McKee, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and her colleagues analyzed data on 5,838 adults, aged 18 to 25, who provided information about their current smoking behavior, weekly consumption of alcohol, frequency of alcohol use, frequency of binge-drinking behavior, rates of hazardous drinking, and rates of AUD diagnoses.
The study was published online in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and was expected to be published in the December print issue of the journal.
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