Scientific study: Smartest teens drink more booze and smoke more pot than other teens

That's because the dumber ones are on more potent stuff (like heroin).

Obviously they can't be too smart if they are doing any type of drugs or booze.

Life is much more enjoyable without.

rojo wrote:

During their early teens, brainy pupils were less likely to smoke cigarettes than their less academically gifted peers, but they were more likely to say they drank alcohol during this period.

There is a simple explanation for this. Only poor people smoke cigarettes, and poor people are stupid.

rojo wrote:

"For the study, researchers tracked 6,000 U.K. teenagers' use of tobacco, alcohol and pot from the ages of 11 to around 20. During their early teens, brainy pupils were less likely to smoke cigarettes than their less academically gifted peers, but they were more likely to say they drank alcohol during this period. They were also more likely to say they used cannabis, but this wasn’t statistically significant."

"However, by the time the students hit their late teens, the school-smart ones were 50% more likely to use pot occasionally and nearly twice as likely to use it persistently than those who didn't do as well at school. They were also more than twice as likely to drink alcohol regularly."

http://time.com/4678433/brainy-teens-smoke-tobacco-pot-study/

There are several studies that conclude happiness and intelligence are inversely correlated.

Curious to know what their criteria for deciding who the smartest teens were. The article uses the term "school smart" so I would guess they used class rank/GPA or something. What constitutes being smart in that case? Top 25%, 10%, 5%, 1%.....

rojo wrote:

"For the study, researchers tracked 6,000 U.K. teenagers' use of tobacco, alcohol and pot from the ages of 11 to around 20. During their early teens, brainy pupils were less likely to smoke cigarettes than their less academically gifted peers, but they were more likely to say they drank alcohol during this period. They were also more likely to say they used cannabis, but this wasn’t statistically significant."

"However, by the time the students hit their late teens, the school-smart ones were 50% more likely to use pot occasionally and nearly twice as likely to use it persistently than those who didn't do as well at school. They were also more than twice as likely to drink alcohol regularly."

http://time.com/4678433/brainy-teens-smoke-tobacco-pot-study/

Might make sense in the United States. Makes no sense coming out of the UK. Anyone who has been around the past twenty years knows the Brits, British government, media and culture are super

Prejudiced against pot. For whatever reason. A very British peculiarity.

Valence_Electrons wrote:

Might make sense in the United States. Makes no sense coming out of the UK. Anyone who has been around the past twenty years knows the Brits, British government, media and culture are super

Prejudiced against pot. For whatever reason. A very British peculiarity.

You do realize the study was done in Britain, right?

poors are stupid wrote:

There is a simple explanation for this. Only poor people smoke cigarettes, and poor people are stupid.

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Valence_Electrons wrote:

Might make sense in the United States. Makes no sense coming out of the UK. Anyone who has been around the past twenty years knows the Brits, British government, media and culture are super

Prejudiced against pot. For whatever reason. A very British peculiarity.

I can see what you are talking about. It all boils down to elitism. I've seen some private school people here talk about pot being a 'poor person's drug' and 'cocaine is where it's at'.

Stay sober....... wrote:

Obviously they can't be too smart if they are doing any type of drugs or booze.

Life is much more enjoyable without.

If your statement is a fact, and not just your opinion, please explain why throughout history people have drank alcohol and done various other types of drugs. I'm not saying there are no pitfalls, or that overindulgence is a good thing, I'm just asking for something other than your opinion.

poors are stupid wrote:

rojo wrote:

During their early teens, brainy pupils were less likely to smoke cigarettes than their less academically gifted peers, but they were more likely to say they drank alcohol during this period.

There is a simple explanation for this. Only poor people smoke cigarettes, and poor people are stupid.

Bingo. Cannabis is pricy and the posh kids smoke it along with drinking wine.

This is why smart parents don't let their smart kids out of their sight.

I have to say my observation after 50 years on this plant runs counter to those findings.

Just going off of my high school experience, the more well-off kids seemed to do better in school. They were also more attractive than the poorer students, for the most part, or at least were able to take care of themselves better and appear more attractive. As a result, they tended to be the more popular kids in school and had more parties. Throw in peer pressure at these parties, and you have more kids drinking and smoking weed.

KarmasAbeech wrote:

I have to say my observation after 50 years on this plant runs counter to those findings.

Which plant? Pot?

rojo wrote:

Valence_Electrons wrote:

Might make sense in the United States. Makes no sense coming out of the UK. Anyone who has been around the past twenty years knows the Brits, British government, media and culture are super

Prejudiced against pot. For whatever reason. A very British peculiarity.

You do realize the study was done in Britain, right?

Rojo

The biggest clue that he did realize that was the sentence "Makes no sense coming out of the UK." That sentence wouldn't be there, it seems, if he did not realize that.

Smokers cough wrote:

Just going off of my high school experience, the more well-off kids seemed to do better in school. They were also more attractive than the poorer students, for the most part, or at least were able to take care of themselves better and appear more attractive. As a result, they tended to be the more popular kids in school and had more parties. Throw in peer pressure at these parties, and you have more kids drinking and smoking weed.

I agree.

poors are stupid wrote:

rojo wrote:

During their early teens, brainy pupils were less likely to smoke cigarettes than their less academically gifted peers, but they were more likely to say they drank alcohol during this period.

There is a simple explanation for this. Only poor people smoke cigarettes, and poor people are stupid.

I don't see how, because ciggies are $60 a carton.

I hafta scrounge for them get a couple and roll my own.

Rojo it is very wise of you to post this study to give troubled yutes more excuses to get wasted. I got a few, too.

Why not moderation? wrote:

Stay sober....... wrote:

Obviously they can't be too smart if they are doing any type of drugs or booze.

Life is much more enjoyable without.

If your statement is a fact, and not just your opinion, please explain why throughout history people have drank alcohol and done various other types of drugs. I'm not saying there are no pitfalls, or that overindulgence is a good thing, I'm just asking for something other than your opinion.

Nope. Just my opinion.

Cubism Cubed wrote:

What constitutes being smart in that case? Top 25%, 10%, 5%, 1%.....

This is the right question.

Speaking only anecdotally, my experience is that top-1% types tend to avoid all that stuff.