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Smoking Lowers Your Kids' IQ

  • January 04, 2005

You may recall a blog I posted last month about research that linked smoking over a long period of time to a negative effect on one's cognitive abilities. Even if you don't care about your own mental faculties, you may want to stop anyway for the sake of your kids, according to a new study. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain cognitive skills, including reading, math, and logic and reasoning, in children and...