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Tobacco-Exposed Kids Do Worse on School Tests
October 22, 2007

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Research Summary

Adolescents who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home perform worse on standardized school tests than non-exposed youth, although researchers are not sure why.

HealthDay News reported Oct. 10 that researchers at Temple University studied thousands of 16- and 18-year-olds from the United Kingdom, cross-referencing testing results with parental smoking and controlling for socioeconomic status, gender, and youth smoking. They found that those exposed to smoking at home performed 30 percent worse on tests than their peers.

The study was published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. 

 Reference:
Collins, B.N., Wileyto, E.P., Murphy, M.F.G., Munafò, M.R. (2007) Adolescent Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Predicts Academic Achievement Test Failure. Journal of Adolescent Health, 41(4): 363-370.
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