USA: Research Shows Teenagers Start Smoking To Lose Weight

Although smoking rates in teenagers has been down for years, researchers have found that girls are starting to smoke in the hope of losing weight.According to a recent study by the American Journal of Health Promotion teenage girls dieting during the two-year study were almost twice as likely to take up smoking than those not dieting. Conversely, the study found that teenage boys turned to cigarettes after attempting and failing at dieting. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness on October 30th, 2007