Sporting Curbs Tobacco Consumption

Physically active and sporting adolescents are less likely to smoke than their non-active and sluggish counterparts, a new Spanish study reports.

Basing its results on a sample survey of nearly 3,000 adolescents, the study is the first to link sporting activities with tobacco consumption.

For the study, the researchers at the University of Granada in association with the researchers at the Spanish National Research Council, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria and the Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion School of Granada surveyed 3,000 students aged between 13 and 18 years.

A questionnaire seeking their habits was filled in by each participant. An amazing 80.9 percent of the Spanish adolescents who practiced a game did not smoke, as compared to 71.4 percent of the non-active adolescents, researchers found.

However unfortunately, more than 40 pct of the adolescents did not indulge in any form of physical activity, the study found.

Among those into regular sporting, researchers noticed a hefty gender disparity – almost 7.1 percent of the boys were physically active as against 46.7 percent of the girls.

Moreover, 15 percent of the adolescents were regular smokers, slightly more girls than boys.

The results of the study feature in the current issue of the journal Nutricion Hospitalaria.

As lack of physical activity is already known to have significant links with a majority of health problems ranging from obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, osteoporosis and cancerdefine, the results of the current study further suggests the importance of adopting and practicing physical activity, researchers averred.
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