Daily Doc: PM, Feb 21, 1996: Associations between smoking and depression
Daily Doc: Associations between smoking and depression
Title: Associations between smoking and depression
PM, Feb 21, 1996
Bates #: 2063127130
April 2, 2000
The following document reveals that Philip Morris is aware internally of literature revealing a substantial link between smoking and depression. Supportive of this is the fact that the new cessation drug, Zyban, is actually the same as Wellbutrin, an anti-depressant.
One might consider the possibility that, while no claims are being made on this information, tobacco companies may be acting to a degree as "shade-tree pharmacists" in the treatment of depression.
CITATION
Title: Associations between smoking and depression
Type of Document: Philip Morris inter-office memo, confidential
From: A.I. Goldsmith, Philip Morris
To: Dr. W.P. Hempfling, Philip Morris
Date: 19960221
Page Count: 1
Site: Philip Morris Document Site: http://www.pmdocs.com/
Bates No. 20631271
URL: http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&start=0&bool=depression%20and%20confidential&docid=2063127130 (Remember to cut and paste entire URL into your browser if it doesn't all appear in blue HTML letters.)
QUOTES
Attached you will find abstracts of some review articles mentioning associations between smoking and depression, and some additional abstracts of other papers from 1994 to the present that mention smoking and depression ...
...While nearly all of the attached abstracts connect depression and smoking, several are more focused on the connection....The most forceful statement is in abstract 19, which begins "[t]here is a strong association between depression and smoking."
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