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The missing link in mental health (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)

Overall smoking rates in Indiana and across the nation are on the decline, but not for people with psychiatric illnesses.

â??Twenty-two percent of adults have a psychiatric disorder, yet they consume 45 percent of cigarettes smoked in the U.S.,â? said Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, clinical director of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsinâ??s University Health Services in Madison.