NEWS: IQ Scores Up In Smoke

CULTURE: IQ Scores Up In Smoke

Do you ever get up in the morning and reach for a cigarette to help you wake up? New research says that even though that nicotine fix will immediately help you feel more alert and focused, a lifetime of smoking may actually reduce your IQ.

Participants in the study were judged on speed and accuracy of tests including short-term memory, verbal reasoning and mathematical reasoning. Test results for seasoned smokers were even lower than those of alcoholics.

Trying to tell me something, love?

Huh?

*dangles car keys in front of you*

Me? No, I like my men stupid.

Hooray!

*eats paste*

Eeee hee hee hee. SHINY.
can I bum a smoke?

Oddly enough, it kinda makes me want to quit.

Quit bogarting all the Elmers!

Well, you've got to be an idiot to start smoking to begin with. Exactly what do you get out of it, besides a money hole and a lot of potential health problems?

It's fun.

You get to be the coolest kid in the cancer ward!

soon theyll say crack use makes you smarter .

And saves you money on your dental....ahhh what's the use!

No...but it is great for weight loss. How many fat crack whores have you seen?

your mom

The study doesn't present a causal relationship between smoking and intelligence. I would have liked to have said the OP was mistaken to try to draw such a conclusion, but it appears that in the original article the researchers attempted to do the same thing.

Well, I'm not going to argue that I wasn't an idiot when I was fifteen.

Ahhh, fuck you all.

*puff*

*puffpuffpuff*

Exactly. And now I can claim that I'm too stupid to know better.

This seems fairly obvious to me, if you load your body with toxins it is never going to operate at 100% efficiency. The question this doesn't answer is if you stop long term will your body correct the imbalances and your IQ would go back to normal.

The study does jump to plenty of conclusions though.