ang2pang asked
PARIS (AFP) - Smoking has long been known to cause cancer, heart disease, impotence and so on -- now, damage to your IQ can be added to the list. Researchers in Scotland assessed the mental abilities of 465 people who had been enrolled in an IQ test at the age of 11 in 1947. The volunteers were tested again between 2000 and 2002, when they were 64 years old. Roughly half of them were smokers. 'Smokers performed significantly worse in five different cognitive tests than did both former smokers and those who had never smoked,' the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
465 answers · 0 comments
Answer this yourself in the app
See how this splits by age, gender, and region in the app.
