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Drug, alcohol abuse on rise in U.S. after Sept. 11 

Exposure to trauma puts a person at four to five times greater risk of substance abuse, and stress is considered the leading cause of relapse to alcohol and drug abuse and addiction and smoking, the report said. . .

The study did not include cigarette smoking, but there are other indications that smoking also has been on the rise.

Thirty percent of people who were smokers prior to Sept. 11 increased the number of cigarettes they consumed, and more than 5 percent of people who said they had previously quit smoking relapsed, according to a separate report by the American Cancer Society and drug maker GlaxoSmithKline Plc [This graph only]

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