Smoking Is Bad for the Brain - Study

[Christopher Green]

Intersting study in New Scientist. Here's a teaser: "Smokers performed significantly worse in five different cognitive tests than did both former smokers and those who had never smoked." http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&u=/nm/20041208/hl_nm/health_smoking_dc&printer=1 -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo Office: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 Fax: 416-736-5814

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News Home - Help Smoking Is Bad for the Brain - Study 15 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking not only damages health, it is bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning nearly 60 years. Yahoo! Health Have questions about your health? Find answers here.   Professor Lawrence Whalley and his team looked at how the cognitive abilities of 465 people, half of them smokers, changed over their lifetime. They were first tested in 1947, at 11 years old and examined again between 2000 and 2002 when they were 64. Smokers performed significantly worse in five different cognitive tests than did both former smokers and those who had never smoked. When social and health behavior was taken into account -- factors like education, occupation and alcohol consumption -- smoking still appeared to contribute to a drop in cognitive function of just less than 1 percent. The link between cognitive aging and impaired lung functions could be that smoking subjects the vital organs, including the brain, to oxidative stress, suggests Whalley, of the Department of Mental Health at the University of Aberdeen. The study he and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh produced appears in New Scientist magazine. Story Tools  Email Story   Post/Read Msgs   Formatted Story   Ratings: Would you recommend this story? Not at all 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Highly Copyright � 2004 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Copyright © 2004 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Questions or Comments Privacy Policy -Terms of Service - Copyright Policy - Ad Feedback

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