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Smoking is Bad for the Brain - Study
(London, Reuters Health, 12/8/04)
Professor Lawrence Whalley of the Department of Mental
Health, Aberdeen, and his colleagues at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, tracked 465 people, half of them
smokers. The researchers initially tested the subjects’
cognitive abilities in 1947 when they were 11 years old and
then reexamined them between 2000 and 2002. The scientists
found that nonsmokers tended to perform better on cognitive
tests than did smokers. These findings suggest, that, not
only is smoking harmful to a person's physical health, but
it damages mental functioning as well.
(New Scientist magazine) |
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