American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on September 4, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(9):919-920; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj307
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TWO OF THE AUTHORS REPLY
Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
(e-mail: ole.klungsoyr@medisin.uio.no)
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We thank Dr. Sheikh (1
) and Ms. Ross (2
) for their comments regarding our recent study assessing the association between cigarette smoking and a subsequent first episode of depression (3
).
Dr. Sheikh's (1
) major concern is that because of a lack of information on short-lived smoking cessation in our study interviews, we could not distinguish depression caused by smoking cessation from depression caused