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Strangely enough the research shows that nicotine has a positive affect on treating schizophrenia symptoms.

Tobacco can be a very good medicine. Smoking cigarettes is obviously harmful, but they can have a very good effect on mood.

In the Peruvian Amazon, tobacco is considered to be a medicine. They use a stronger type of tobacco called "mapacho" which is pure, no additives. A regular brand cigarette contain about 10% additives (mainly sugars but also a lot of chemicals no one has ever heard of).

And since mapacho is so strong you can get the effects without even inhaling the smoke, which is healthier for the lungs.

Mapachos are used to clean out bad energies and keep bad spirits away.

Here's a Scott Alexander post that looks at the link between nicotine and Schizophrenia. The research seems to indicate the nicotine reduces the incidence of schizophrenia, rather than smoking triggering schizophrenia. Smokers are less likely to develop schizophrenia, and mentally ill people probably end up smoking because it helps their symptoms

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...