Smoking While Drinking
The belief that having a couple of alcoholic drinks increases the desire
for a cigarette has found experimental support in recent years. King
and Epstein (2005) found that the administration of alcohol to
occasional smoker-drinkers led to a dose-dependent increase in the
desire to smoke.1
Subjects who ingested the equivalent of two to three drinks showed an
increased desire for tobacco over those who received no alcohol, and
subjects who received the equivalent of four to five drinks showed a
stronger desire to smoke than the other two groups. Smoking urges
increased as blood alcohol content increased, and persisted as blood
alcohol content declined. Epstein et al. (2007) found similar results,
noting that "this effect appears to be driven by heightened stimulation
levels rather than as a means to offset alcohol's sedative effects."2read on...
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