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May 28, 2002
Tobacco, Alcohol Use Up After 9 /
11
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:01 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Manhattan
residents drank more alcohol and smoked more cigarettes and
marijuana after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a study.
Researchers at the New York Academy
of Medicine surveyed nearly 1,000 Manhattan residents in the two
months after the World Trade Center disaster. A quarter of
respondents said they drank more than usual in the five to eight
weeks after the attack.
Nearly 10 percent said they had
been smoking more cigarettes and more than 3 percent said they had
been smoking more marijuana, according to a report to appear in the
June edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Post-traumatic stress disorder and
depression were more common among those who said their smoking and
drinking increased after the attack. Thirty-six percent of those who
smoked more marijuana also reported stress disorder symptoms such as
sleeplessness and nightmares.
More than one-fifth of those
smoking more tobacco reported symptoms of depression.
A four-month follow-up survey found
that New Yorkers in all five boroughs continue to smoke more
tobacco, said David Vlahov, director of the academy's Center for
Urban Epidemiologic Studies.
``There's a fair proportion of
people that increased at least a pack a day,'' Vlahov said.
A study released on May 18, found
as many as 400,000 New Yorkers suffered from post-traumatic stress
disorder or depression after Sept. 11. It was done by the New York
research firm Schulman, Ronca and Bucuvalas Inc. in conjunction with
the New York Academy of Medicine.
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