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Smoking Room

NPR

Published February 21, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

For a psychiatrist, cigarettes can be a tool of therapy. Commentator Elissa Ely knows the unhealthy habit of smoking is a powerful motivation for patients in the psych ward.