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Participation in Organized High School Activities Lowers Risk of Smoking 3 Years after Graduation |
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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania reported today that students who participate in high school sports or individual physical activity are less likely to smoke than their classmates. The new study indicates that the protective effect of participation extends at least three years beyond graduation. Daniel Rodriguez, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, reported that an adolescent's self-assessment and sense of physical competence was an important aspect in smoking prevention. Now, in the first of two studies that Rodriguez will present at the American Association for Cancer Research's "Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research" meeting in Philadelphia, the investigators followed 985 young adults from 12th grade through the third year after high school. You don't have the opportunity to do something like start smoking." Unfortunately, the Penn researchers found in the study of 10th and 11th graders that girls do not derive the same benefit from participation in high school sports as do boys.
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