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Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs
Hugh Pickens writes "Science Daily reports on a study that has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers. In the study, conducted with 20,000 Israeli Army recruits and veterans, the average IQ for a non-smoker was about 101, while the smokers' average was more than seven IQ points lower at about 94, and the IQs of young men who smoked more than a pack a day were lower still, at about 90. (These IQs all fall within the normal range.) 'In the health profession, we've generally thought that smokers are most likely the kind of people to have grown up in difficult neighborhoods, or who've been given less education at good schools,' says Prof. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry, whose study was reported in a recent version of the journal Addiction. 'Because our study included subjects with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, we've been able to rule out socio-economics as a major factor. The government might want to rethink how it allocates its educational resources on smoking.' Prof. Weiser says that the study illuminates a general trend in epidemiological studies. 'People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health,' says Weiser. 'Schoolchildren who have been found to have a lower IQ can be considered at risk to begin the habit, and can be targeted with special education and therapy to prevent them from starting or to break the habit after it sets in.'"
You are forgetting that some of us smoke because ::gasp:: we enjoy it.
No.
You talk yourself into believing that you enjoy it because you know it's bad and don't want to accept that you're an addict.
Claus
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I couldn't get though the parent post without imagining a self-important university type. "I now smoke a pipe while drinking congnac with my professor and philosophy student friends and now I smoke weed" Berkley? is that you? This second hand smoke is making me dumb. Um, "lung cancer no" - what you smok'n
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Said Bill Hicks and died of a smoking-related condition.
Metastatic pancreatic cancer isn't a "smoking-related condition", unless he was smoking with his fucking pancreas.
Geez, has the anti-smoking "Gets Lung cancer <-> smokes" canard actually become so prevalent that anyone sees the word "Cancer" and thinks "smoking-related?"
I like to think that Bill died of Pancreatic Cancer as one final "Fuck you!" to the aforementioned "obnoxious, self-righteous, whining little fucks".
Oh? Did you bother to look that up, or are you just spouting something that seems logical to you?
The truth>/b> is, smokers have an increased incidence of pancreatic cancer. So do people who use "smokeless" tobacco products like snus or chew or dip.
Whether or not we can directly attribute Bill Hicks' cancer to smoking is a different story... but smoking was likely a contributing factor.
Before you berate someone with your ignorant opinions, please check the facts. You might be surprised.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Provide a citation, or you're doing the exact same thing you're accusing me of.