Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenic people seem to smoke A LOT.

I've seen it in schizophrenia documentaries, the narrator mentioned in one of them how it was very common, and even in the video of that guy I posted above, he smokes a shitload...

Smoking cigarettes seems to be a HUGE coping mechanism.

That's obviously a self-harming tendency. So I would say smoking heavily is probably especially prevalent among those who have the most negative perceptions.

I had a friend from grade school and high school that got diagnosed as schizophrenic in his early 20's. Up to that point, never saw him even near a cigarette. But a little down the line, after the diagnosis [maybe a couple years into it] he started smoking. Very strange. 

And I know this is something completely different but have you ever heard of the phantom-cigarette phenomenon associated with datura use? It's usually the higher doses, like the non-lethal overdoses where one just has a real bad time of things but there's no organ failure or death. Datura being a dissociative substance and schizophrenia can also cause a person to wildly dissociate, among other things. I just thought possibly somewhere in there maybe there's a similar neural pathway being triggered that causes those types of reactions.