I think this study is based on a long shot. I am much more inclined to believe it is medication and lack of activity that causes obesity and diabetes in patients with illnesses primarily controlled with anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers [bi-polar and schizophrenia].
Nurses are stressed, so they smoke, patients are stressed by their illness, so they smoke.. it doesn't mean one group encourages the other. The best way to measure it seems to be asking the question of when and why a person started smoking.
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