Smoking and schizophrenia
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Joseph P. McEvoy; John Lindgren
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Patients with schizophrenia smoke at a higher prevalence rate (80%) than the general population (30%). Those patients with schizophrenia who smoke have an earlier age of onset and may have more refractory psychopathology. Smoking improves sensory gating, sustained attention, and cognitive performanc