Smoking’s Harm!!!
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Does smoking affect a person’s seasoning, memory and other cognitive abilities? A study involved 1964 generally healthy people (average age, 56); about 21% smoked, 44% were former smokers and 35% never had smoked.
At the start of the study, smokers scored lower on average than people who never had smoked on all tested aspects of cognition, except memory; those scores were about the same. During a five-year span. smokers’ scores in all areas, including memory, declined about twice as fast as non-smokers’ did. The more cigarettes smokes, the greater the decline. (more…)
