Non smokers more intelligent than smokers

[viper37]

So says study.
Also applies to non drug users, more intelligent than those who uses the stuff.
But I already knew that

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11971

Proof: Smoking Is Dumb
Thursday, April 1, 2010   
TAU researcher finds link between cigarette  smoking and IQ

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"Only dopes use dope," goes the  memorable warning about drugs. Now a Tel Aviv University  researcher cautions that the same goes for cigarettes.
A study led by Prof. Mark  Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of  Psychiatry and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer  Hospital has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have  lower IQs than their non-smoking peers. Tracking 18- to 21-year-old men  enlisted in the Israeli army in the largest ever study of its kind, he  has been able to demonstrate an important connection between the number  of cigarettes young males smoke and their IQ.
The average IQ for a non-smoker was  about 101, while the smokers' average was more than seven IQ points  lower at about 94, the study determined. The IQs of young men who smoked  more than a pack a day were lower still, at about 90. An IQ score in a  healthy population of such young men, with no mental disorders, falls  within the range of 84 to 116.

An addiction that doesn't  discriminate

"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. Weiser, whose study was reported  in a recent version of the journal Addiction. "But 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."
Making the results more significant, the  study also measured effects in siblings. In the case where one brother  smoked, the non-smoking brother registered a higher IQ on average.
Although a lower IQ may suggest a  greater risk for smoking addiction, the cross-sectional data on IQ and  smoking found that most of the smokers investigated in the study had IQs  within the average range nevertheless.

Obesity, drug addiction also at  issue

In the study, the researchers took data  from more than 20,000 men before, during and after their time in the  military. All men in the study were considered in good health, since  pre-screening measures for suitability in the army had already been  taken. The researchers found that around 28 percent of their sample  smoked one or more cigarettes a day, 3 percent considered themselves  ex-smokers, and 68% said they never smoked.
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 Prof.  Weiser. He adds that his finding can help address a serious concern  among health counsellors at grade and high schools. 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.
"People with lower IQs are not only  prone to addictions such as smoking," Prof. Weiser adds. "These same  people are more likely to have obesity, nutrition and narcotics issues.  Our study adds to the evidence of this growing body of research, and it  may help parents and health professionals help at-risk young people make  better choices."

So... let's see.
Being bilingual makes you smarter. Check.
Not smoking makes you smarter.  Check.
Not using drugs makes you smarter.  Check.

I gotta have one hell of an IQ

[Neil]

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc?

[Grallon]

I gotta have one hell of an IQ

And yest you manage to get to get busted for 'drinking & driving' ...


Tsk tsk tsk Vip!




G.

[viper37]

And yest you manage to get to get busted for 'drinking & driving' ...

Tsk tsk tsk Vip!

G.

I never got busted for drinking&driving... where did you get that?
I wouldn't say I never did drink & drive, but I can count that on the fingers of one hand, and last time was a really long time ago.

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc?

Yeah, it seems to be part of the case.  People are smarter, so they don't smoke & do drugs, hence the poll reveals non smokers are smarters.

Doesn't mean I can brag about it

[Razgovory]

I know studies are like this crap cause I don't smoke or do drugs and the only person I edge out smartwise here is Siege.

[Caliga]

I know studies are like this crap

[Alatriste]

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc?

Hear, hear.

[Josquius]

OMG SMOKING MAKES YOU STUPID!

[Brazen]

No double-blind study. It's just as likely to prove that stupid people are more likely to smoke.

[Ed Anger]

I know studies are like this crap cause I don't smoke or do drugs and the only person I edge out smartwise here is Siege.

Hey, you edge out the bots that occasionally show up here.

[The Brain]

Only retards and women smoke.

[DontSayBanana]

Only retards and women smoke.

Quia ego sic dico.

[DGuller]

Too mucho Latino.

[Ed Anger]

Too mucho Latino.

Rico Suave.