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High school grads less likely to smoke
ITHACA, N.Y. (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have analyzed the correlation between high school completion and the two leading causes of preventable death: smoking and obesity.
Cornell University researchers, in what they describe as a groundbreaking study, used microdata from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth and found high school graduates significantly less likely to smoke than non-graduates and GED recipients.
"Many previous studies of the schooling-health link focus on general measures of health outcomes," said researchers Donald Kenkel, Dean Lillard and Alan Mathios. "Our study instead focuses on key health behaviors as specific pathways by which schooling can lead to differences in health outcomes. The results suggest completing high school yields large apparent health returns in the form of less smoking."
For example, 47 percent of male high school dropouts in the researchers' sample are current smokers, while smoking among males who finished high school is about 26 percentage points lower.
However, the researchers found little evidence that high school completion had an influence on weight. In fact, male high school graduates are about 7 percentage points more likely to be overweight, the researchers said.
The research appears in the Journal of Labor Economics.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/06/2006
This is true from my observations.
Now we can't go so far as to say, "If you don't smoke, and take time to exercise, you will graduate and be healthy." But we CAN say, "If you don't smoke and take time to exercise, you will be more likely to graduate than not."
Prevention is the best medicine. Along with lots of clean laughter.
Proverbs 17:22 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
So, of all the non-graduates you know, how many of them smoke as compared to non-graduates who do not smoke?
Of all the non-graduates you know, how many of them are over-weight as compared to non-graduates who are not?
Jesus wept. - John 11:35
Jesus wept. - John 11:35
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