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Further studies with a large sample size of male SCZ patients who smoke, with a longitudinal design of various antipsychotics, are needed to establish this relationship between smoking and the alleviation of negative symptoms in SCZ patients

Activity in the brain's dopamine system might be one explanation of a possible causal link between smoking and psychosis, says study co-author Professor Robin Murray also of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry

Cigarette smoke is made up of more than 7,000 toxic chemicals, including ammonia, tar, and carbon monoxide