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Healthy Adults Exposed to Secondhand Smoke at Risk of Psychological Distress

Did you know that healthy adults exposed to secondhand smokemaybe at higher risk of suffering psychological distress and future psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization?A major Scottish population study tracked more than 8,000 adults over six years andfound that nonsmokers exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke were at a 49 percent higher adjusted risk of psychological distress!…