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Smoking, and to a lesser extent non-combustible nicotine use, is associated with higher levels of alcohol consumption and risky drinking. (www.nature.com)
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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t envy researchers tasked with validating common sense conclusions, but someone has to do it

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"do people with substance addictions also have other substances addictions" seems like a REALLY hard thing to control for too.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The paper doesn't make any claims about causal relationships, it only looks at co-occurance. So no need to account for confounding factors.

[–] miseducator@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Ya don't say!