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College Students Who Smoke More Likely to Binge Drink
November 2, 2005

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A study of Minnesota college students found that those who smoke are more than twice as likely to binge drink as their nonsmoking peers, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Oct. 26.

Students were surveyed at 17 schools. Twenty-eight percent of nonsmokers said they drank five or more drinks at a sitting within the previous two weeks, compared to 67 percent of smokers. Cars, bars, and parties were the most popular places to smoke, students said.

"When you see smokers having high-risk drinking rates at two to three times that of nonsmokers, something's going on here," said Ed Ehlinger, chief health officer at the University of Minnesota's Boynton Health Service.

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