Smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers

habo9

Banned
I know plenty of dumb people that dont smoke & smokers who have high demanding jobs that arent dumb & vice versa , I dont think it matters

So this is dumb , I stopped smoking last August and I reckon Im still as dumb as I was then ;)
 
It may be true that they have a lower IQ, but they are cooler than non-smokers. FACT.

Really cool. I saw a bunch of smokers huddled together having a smoke outside the pub door.They looked really cool because it was snowing.In fact they looked absolute prats who hadn't got the self restraint to do without for an hour or so. Pitiful really.
 
Fire on one end, a fool on the other end!
 
All the atricle is really saying is that people with lower IQs are more prone to start smoking. It doesn't mean that people with high IQs won't or don't smoke or that there is a direct correlation between smoking and intelligence (or lack thereof), the article just implies that through its pretentious tone. Obama was/is a smoker. A fact that several anti-smoking liberals tend to conveniently downplay... Does that mean he has a low IQ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9LcNyn614I&feature=related
 
All the atricle is really saying is that people with lower IQs are more prone to start smoking. It doesn't mean that people with high IQs won't or don't smoke or that there is a direct correlation between smoking and intelligence (or lack thereof), the article just implies that through its pretentious tone. Obama was/is a smoker. A fact that several anti-smoking liberals tend to conveniently downplay... Does that mean he has a low IQ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9LcNyn614I&feature=related

:thumbsup:
 

Legzman

what the fuck you lookin at?
I can hear the argument now. "of course smokers have a lower IQ..they were dumb enough to smoke in the first place" To that I say :thefinger
 
Here's an interesting study about smoking cigarettes and IQs

http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2010/02/23/eline/links/20100223elin001.html

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Interesting article.

Apparently the same team performed another related study...

http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2010/02/23/eline/links/20100223elin001wtf.html

Last Updated: 2010-02-23 10:00:43 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers at Sheba Medical Center have demonstrated that cigarette smokers have a more difficult time understanding the significance of statistical health studies than non-smokers. It quickly became apparent that the more a person smokes the more difficulties they experienced.

When shown two highly correlated factors, young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day believed those factors to imply a causal relationship that did not exist.
This was true even in cases where the studies clarified this point in the conclusion.

Men who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day believed that if they could find one to two examples that did not fit the correlation, then the correlation must not hold.
They held this belief even when the examples chosen were neither from the sample nor subject to any of the same controls.

Nearly all smokers were found to reject studies or data of any kind that conflicted with their desire to continue to smoke in the quantities and frequencies desired.

The findings suggest to Weiser and his team that people addicted to nicotine become resistant to studies suggesting negative effects of smoking, rather than that smoking made those people less intelligent and thus unable to comprehend health studies.

SOURCE: Addiction, February 2010.
 
So somebody did a study that concluded dumber people are statistically more likely to make a dumb choice. Next up somebody will do a study that shows the sun rises in the east.
 

Philbert

Banned
I think the study says that in the Israeli military more dumb soldiers smoke than smart soldiers. Smoking did not contribute to anyone's genius (ex. Einstein, JFK, whomever). Soldiers may have a reason to smoke: calm nerves. But, it is a dumb way to calm nerves.

The social acceptance of smoking no longer exists. It causes cancer in most people who smoke.

Dumb post...it's probably smoking a cigarette right now...:cool::D
4 points of IQ, from 96 to 100, does not signify "dumb"...it shows lower than "higher", another slanted study that zings right over the heads of lower IQ readers. [Who could I be referring to?]
IQ tests can be quite arbitrary...take 3 different tests in a space of 5 or 6 days and the results will vary 4 -10 points easily.
Smoking can be done so many different ways...smoking a cigarette past the halfway point doubles the tar and crap inhaled...puff on it but don't inhale and you get less tars and nicotine than a bar visit in the 80s for a half hour or less.
So, saying smokers will get cancer and die is just as ToothFairy Worshipping as believing Obama is a great President and the Left loves us all.
Some smokers get cancer from smoking...many don't. Some nons get cancer...many don't.
Convenient science, not real information...:sleep:
 

Philbert

Banned
Fire on one end, a fool on the other end!

How silly...most smokers are much more tuned in than you seem to be, NeoCon Ned.
You could say the same thing about a NeoCon Paranoid with his shoes on fire...
 
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