"People with lower IQs are not only prone to addictions such as smoking,"

[bekisman]

'A study led by Prof. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers' - can this be right? No, I'm not trolling, but trying to think back over many decades to see if I see that inclination myself..

http://phys.org/news/2010-04-dumb-li...arette-iq.html

[Rheghead]

On the subject of IQ, people with high IQs are more likely to vote for the Green party and low IQs are more likely to vote for BNP with a sliding scale that shows that less intelligent people tend to vote for right wing politics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...le-racist.html

[Alrock]

Maybe they should package cigarettes in puzzle boxes so that those with a low IQ can't get them out...

[bekisman]

Hmm, why are the Greens so unprincipled and incompetent I wonder? Ah here tiz: http://cambridgeglobalist.org/2015/0...d-incompetent/ it's amazing what can be found, maybe I'm too right wing? but it ain't my IQ I assure you..

[Rheghead]

Hmm, why are the Greens so unprincipled and incompetent I wonder? Ah here tiz: http://cambridgeglobalist.org/2015/0...d-incompetent/ it's amazing what can be found, maybe I'm too right wing? but it ain't my IQ I assure you..

I don't take notice of blogs like you gave a link to, however the study that I referred to was scientifically conducted with 15,000 participants compared with the words of one armchair right-wing warrior with a computer...

[bekisman]

But that was from the Students of Cambridge! by jove!

[Rheghead]

What? all of them?

[Kenn]

What is the definition of a young man in this research?
If some one takes up smoking in their teens surely their IQ is already established so how could it be affected?
Now physical prowess is an altogether different matter

[theone]

What is the definition of a young man in this research?
If some one takes up smoking in their teens surely their IQ is already established so how could it be affected?
Now physical prowess is an altogether different matter

I don't think the suggestion is that smoking lowers the IQ. It is that having a low IQ means you're more likely to smoke.

[theone]

On the subject of IQ, people with high IQs are more likely to vote for the Green party and low IQs are more likely to vote for BNP with a sliding scale that shows that less intelligent people tend to vote for right wing politics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...le-racist.html

A left winger quoting the daily mail. There's got to be an irony there.

[janeyj]

I wonder if IQ's should be assessed as part of the driving test? Should lead to much quieter roads!!!

[rob murray]

'A study led by Prof. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers' - can this be right? No, I'm not trolling, but trying to think back over many decades to see if I see that inclination myself..

http://phys.org/news/2010-04-dumb-li...arette-iq.html

great tool google eh ? see https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...ore-cigarettes why intelligent people in US smoke more than counterparts in UK

[bekisman]

great tool google eh ? see https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...ore-cigarettes why intelligent people in US smoke more than counterparts in UK

Yea, but the UK did not get tobacco until 15th Century, it had been 'over there' for years.. Got three sons and a daughter - the only one that smokes occasionally would do the Rubix cube at 6 years old in 45 seconds and got a First Class Honours plus two individual top prizes at Dundee Uni in Computing.. so......

[Rheghead]

A left winger quoting the daily mail. There's got to be an irony there.

Will quoting another media outlet make any difference?

[Rheghead]

I don't think the suggestion is that smoking lowers the IQ. It is that having a low IQ means you're more likely to smoke.

I don't know about that really, clearly there is a mechanism to lower IQ in smokers by inhaling fumes that are harmful to the body. eg. Carbon monoxide binds rigidly with haemoglobin to prevent oxygen going to the brain and all that.

[theone]

I don't know about that really, clearly there is a mechanism to lower IQ in smokers by inhaling fumes that are harmful to the body. eg. Carbon monoxide binds rigidly with haemoglobin to prevent oxygen going to the brain and all that.

Perhaps you are right.

But that is not what the study showed. It only said that people with lower IQ's make poorer health choices. There is no suggestion in that article that the IQ of people who smoke changes over time.

[gardeninginagale]

What a pile of irrrelevant rubbish. Who is funding this Weiser person? All these available funds should be going to cancer research.

[auk]

1. Albert Einstein was known for smoking a pipe. He once said, "I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs."
   
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[sids]

pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs."

When you're addicted to it, yes.