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Smoke brings down grades
Teens exposed to second-hand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
"Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, second-hand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance," said lead author Bradley Collins, assistant professor of public health and director of the Health Behaviour Research Clinic at Temple University.
Taking other known risk factors into account - for example, socioeconomic status, gender, prenatal exposure to smoking and active smoking during adolescence- the researchers found that exposure to second-hand smoke at home decreased the odds of passing standardized achievement tests by 30 percent in 16- and 18-year-olds.
Surprisingly, the study found that when examining the effects of prenatal tobacco exposure and second-hand smoke together, prenatal exposure did not influence test performance.
These study results bolster growing evidence of academic-related second-hand smoke consequences beyond the known health consequences, and should further encourage efforts to reduce this environmental threat, the researchers stated.
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Posted in: News on September 20, 2007 @ 12:00 AM
Tags: School
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while it may be true, they didn't take into consideration, what kind of person the parents are. people who smoke tend to not give a fuck what others think as much because otherwise they would of stopped. the kids might just be like their parents.
... that's sort of debateable. some people start smoking just because it's the "cool" thing to do, and then never stop (like my mom)...
I guess they thought people would be more likely to care about low grades than about people getting cancer from second hand smoke. I can't think of any other reason why anyone would even bother to research this :P
somethin' to do lol?
lolz
there's plenty of more useful stuff to do, they're just not looking hard enough :)