Do smokers have lower IQs than other people?

Question

I see them cough a lung up, then continue to puff away. Why can't they make the connection?

Answer 1

Not a prov en fact their just stupid for smoking, given the detrimental effects.

Answer 2

Hi,
Cigarette smoking kills nearly about 420,000 people a year, Smokers are also inhaling other chemicals including cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, methanol (wood alcohol), acetylene (the fuel used in torches), and ammonia. Smoke also contains nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide, which are harmful gases.

The main risks to smokers are

1. Heart disease

Smokers in their thirties and forties have a heart attack rate that is five times higher than their nonsmoking peers. Cigarette smoking may be directly responsible for at least 20% of all deaths from heart disease, or about 120,000 deaths annually. Smoking cigars may also increase the risk of early death from heart disease, although evidence is much stronger for cigarette smoking.

Its damaging effects on the heart are multifold:


Smoking lowers HDL levels (the so-called good cholesterol) even in adolescents.

It causes deterioration of elastic properties in the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, and increases the risk for blood clots. It increases the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (which regulates the heart and blood vessels).

Tobacco smoke may increase cardiovascular disease in women through an effect on hormones that causes oestrogen deficiency.
2. Cancer

Smoking is the cause of 85% of all cases of lung cancer in 2000, account for 28% of all cancer deaths. Quitting reduces the risk for lung cancer, even well into middle age.

Smoking and smokeless tobacco also cause between 60% and 93% of cancers of the throat, mouth, and oesophagus. Smokers also have higher rates of leukaemia and cancers of the kidney, stomach, bladder, and pancreas. About 30% of cervical cancers have been attributed to both active and passive smoking. Lung cancer patients who survive and continue to smoke face a serious risk of developing a second tobacco-related tumour within ten years.

3. Dementia and neurologic diseases

People who smoke a pack a day have almost two and a half times the risk of stroke as non-smokers. The best current research suggesting that smoking makes little difference in the risk for Alzheimer's, and if it does, the risk for dementia is slightly higher in smokers. Certainly, smoking can affect blood vessels in the brain as it does in the heart, increasing the risk for dementia from small or major strokes.


Better not to smoke

Enjoy Life

Dr.Mojo

Answer 3

The smokers certianly loose connectivity between the sentences and also there has been seen a ''memory loss''. The harmful chemicals present inside any ciggeratte causes severe destruction everytime we smoke.
So, be careful !

Answer 4

I think we must