WOW that was quite a post , but please let me blow most of that out the water. First i never thought of mental patient,s smokeing an being targeted by tabacco companies, i never seen posters saying if your nuts smoke it will help. Listen to this, in England smokeing is banned from hospitals an even the grounds they stand on, but for 1 exception, you got it the mental unit. They at my mental hospital have the own garden area where they can smoke all day,an there is no shortage of doctor,s an nurses willing to stand outside with a sectioned patient so they can grab a cig. When starting medication, they tell you not to drink alchol an you carnt drink in hospital, nobody say,s you carnt smoke. No doctor giveing meds to a metally ill patient will tell them to stop smokeing , FACT,the number of doctor,s an nurse,s that smoke are as great as mental patients, doctors are also well known to drink a lot to combat stress an have the highest suicide rates of all prosession,s FACT. All the people that say they want to quit , most dont FACT, you may have smoked a lot in you life i dont know i never have, only the odd cigar i can take or leave them , but there is a feel good factor i must admit. Now the difference over meds an cig,s , probuably more chance of meds killing you than cig,s, what with liver damage , organ faliure, obese, suicide an sex impotence, Yes the 2 main down sides of meds are enough to make anyone smoke an drink FACT,meds kill your sex drive an make you fat long term , people on meds for years will carry at least 20lbs of med weight, not all but most, FACT. sex goes out the window with your marriage if on a high dose of meds,just think your 25 year,s old an carnt have sex with your wife. cig,s decrease your sex to but not a massive degree like meds, an whats the first thing a couple who smoke do after sex???? you got it spark up a cig to carry on the feel good factor. Personally i think the are a lot of stressed up low leveled depressives out there that need cig,s to function, me myself who dont really smoke would love to think i could smoke 30 cig,s a day an get rid of all my shrink meds instead. The side effects of meds out weigh the side effects of smokeing FACT. They both end in death , but which kill,s you first is a lottery.