GRANADA, Spain, Aug 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Spanish researchers say they
have found a direct relation between sports and cutting adolescent tobacco
usage.
Samplings of 3,000 adolescents ages 13 to 18 found 80 percent of those who
played a sport did not smoke. This compared to 71.4 percent of physically
inactive adolescents, reported researchers of the University of Granada, the
Spanish National Research Council, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and
Cantabria and the Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion School of Granada. Their
findings, summarized in a press release, are being published in the journal
Nutricion Hospitalaria.
Their percentages reportedly compared with similar studies of adolescents done
in the United States. In the Spanish scientists' opinion, results show the
importance of promoting physical activity and eradicating tobacco consumption
among youth as part of dealing with obesity, diabetes, coronary disease,
osteoporosis and cancer. As physical activity decreases among adolescents as
they get older, tobacco consumption increases, researchers said.
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