Bad News for Smokers,who thinks smoking may increase their IQ.

Bad News for Smokers,who thinks smoking may increase their IQ.An old studydirected by Prof. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital found that smokers have lower IQ.

He has conducted his study on 18 to 21 yrs old men working in the Israeli army.

The study discovered that average IQ of a non-smoker was about 101, while smoker's average was about 94. The IQ of a smoker who can smoke more than a packet in a day lie around 90.

Prof. Weiser said that our study is based on socio-economic factors relating to a smoker. It is generally believed that a person who gets addicted to smoking is either not grown up in a healthy and peaceful environment or is less educated or does not get a good company in his younger age.

This study also tracked two twin brothers, in this case one of the twin smoked and he registered lower IQ on average than the non-smoker twin.

During study most of the smokers investigated were found with average range of IQs.

Researchers took data from more than 20,000 men, some of them had left army, some of them are in army and some of them are planning to join army. During this investigation it was found that all men acquire good health, since they had to keep their health according to the norms of army. Researchers found few surprising results, 28 percent are sample smokers smoking one or more cigarettes in a day, 3 percent are ex-smokers and 68 percent are non-smokers.

Although people with lower IQ suggest greater risk for smoking and give less importance to their health and display poor decision making skill.

Prof. Weiser adds that people with lower IQ are also prone to obesity, faces nutrition and narcotics issues. Our study may help the parents, health professionals to help young men to skip smoking and adapt some other better choices.