American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on February 22, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(8):780; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj106
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Letter to the Editor |
RE: "EFFECT OF SMOKING ON DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY: A REEXAMINATION OF DATA FROM THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH"
Department of Psychiatry, Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
(e-mail: kris@conte.wustl.edu)
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Duncan and Rees (1
) recently reported on the association between smoking and depression among adolescents. The stated conclusion of their study is that, "for the average adolescent, the association between smoking and the symptoms of depression can in large part be attributed to the influence of unobservable factors" (1
, p. 469). The