Smokers have lower IQs than those who abstain, with intelligence decreasing the more one smokes, researchers have found.I'm not sure how that picture got in there.
A study of 18 to 21-year-old men revealed that the IQs of smokers averaged 94 – seven points lower than non-smokers on 101.
IQ scores in a healthy population of young men fall between 84 and 116, but those who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day averaged just 90 between them.
Researchers in Israel took data from more than 20,000 healthy men before, during and after they spent time in the Israeli military.
About 28 per cent of their sample smoked one or more cigarettes a day, three per cent considered themselves ex-smokers, and 68 per cent said they never smoked.
Professor Mark Weiser, of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry, said: "In the health profession, we've generally thought that smokers are most likely the kind of people to have grown up in difficult neighbourhoods, or who've been given less education at good schools.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Smokers Have Lower IQs
So says a Israeli study:
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What can a person say? I guess the photo supports the conclusion of the study.
I read that vegetarians have smaller brains; this on the heels of schools wanting to have meatless Mondays.
Yeah, that will improve our world.
Nightengale, you wound me. (I'm a vegetarian.)
Just for the record the sort of famous photo of Barack having a smoke is, I think, faked. I found the same photo uncropped and was able to compare it to this one. In the uncropped version (which is reversed from this one, i.e. Obama is actually facing right) he is in conversation with someone and his expression makes sense as a reaction to his interlocuter).
My criticism of the president is well-known at this forum, but for the sake of accuracy, I point this out. Upon closer examination of the photo, you can see that the cigarette doesn't cast a shadow, etc.
Ann, I have the utmost respect for you, and in many ways you inspire me.
With regards to diet, I have been doing hoards of reading, and find that we have been indoctrinated to believe saturated fat and protein are bad, when in reality starchy carbohydrates are killing us. Some people can tolerate high levels of starch, most cannot. And cholesterol in not causing heart disease; that distinction goes to glucose...simple and complex.
Here is the article I read on vegetarianism and brain shrinkage: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarians-have-smaller-brains.html
Happy Easter to you Ann, and your family.
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