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Teen Girls: Don't Smoke Unless You want to be Fat

sciencedaily.com — Remember the cool girls, huddled together in high school restrooms, puffing their cigarettes? Well, here’s consolation for the nerds in the crowd: Those teen smokers are more likely to experience obesity as adults, according to a new study from Finland.

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  • pinniger, on 01/06/2009, -6/+107Who cares about lung cancer, you might get fat!
  • EIEAviv2008, on 01/06/2009, -4/+70Like teen girl's will actually read this...

    Teen Girls + Digg = Paradox
  • Seth024, on 01/06/2009, -5/+71correlation is not causation.

    People with unhealthy lifestyles are more common to smoke and be fat. People who live healthy are most likely neither smokers or fat.
  • jer21, on 01/06/2009, -1/+46Not according to Troy McClure's "Smoke Yourself Thin" self-help video.
  • MrsButtersworth, on 01/06/2009, -0/+44Is there anything they don't do a study on?
  • Garlik, on 01/06/2009, -17/+55Stand up comedians: Don't make idiotic jokes unless you want to be like Dane Cook
  • wardsac, on 01/06/2009, -2/+39So, according to the summary, non smokers in high school = nerds.

    I'm glad I didn't go to high school where you did...
  • DMCer, on 01/06/2009, -0/+36Not sure how that's relevant, but dugg for anti- Dane Cook reference.
  • CoD4, on 01/06/2009, -5/+39goatse
  • jotate, on 01/06/2009, -19/+50Smoking is a huge turn-off. It pisses me off how many women I see that are just gorgeous and then I see the little white piece of ***** between their fingers. Instant disgust.
  • houndeyex, on 01/06/2009, -1/+28That's because you'll be pounding the jelly beans when you try to kick the habit.
  • Smokeydabear, on 01/06/2009, -4/+31Remember ladies, that's fat, not phat!
  • lisaawesome, on 01/06/2009, -1/+25Teen girls, you have to KEEP smoking to stay thin duh. However as a former teen girl who smoked I don't know anyone who smoked in high school to be thin. Of course I mostly hung out with the stoners and no matter how many cigarettes you smoke you won't make up for those 3 double cheeseburgers at 2am.
  • Cerialthriller, on 01/06/2009, -0/+22so a difference of 1.34" in the waist goes from fit to obese?
  • jotate, on 01/06/2009, -5/+26Dugg down? Seriously? I'm genuinely surprised Diggers don't agree with me on this, most of the people I know agree that it's a disgusting habit and a deal breaker when it comes to women.

    Makes you smell like ass, makes you taste like ass, disturbs the people you do it around, eats your money, and rots you from the inside.

    I'm not saying you don't have the right to do it as much as you want. I'm just saying that it's at least as unattractive as choosing to grow a mullet.
  • DeadSkinMask, on 01/06/2009, -9/+28Or unless you want to taste & smell like a ***** ashtray.
  • habbofresh, on 01/06/2009, -1/+18I'm fat because I smoke.

    I smoke because I'm fat.

    it's a vicious cycle.
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -7/+24And we all know fat chicks are the antichrist.
  • shaka999, on 01/06/2009, -0/+16I was thinking the same thing. If you have a compulsive personality its going to apply to more than one area.
  • ahhell, on 01/06/2009, -2/+17So popular high school whores who smoke turn into fat used up whores who smoke...sounds about right.

    Nothing more satisfying then going to a reunion and seeing that all the popular girls have turned into Jerry Springer guests.
  • LogicBomB, on 01/06/2009, -2/+15By using the terms "correlation" and "causation" in the same sentence I suddenly beleive you to be incredibly smart and insightful.

    Please, continue.
  • Tynan, on 01/06/2009, -3/+16Probably the same lack of impulse control that makes them smoke also makes them overeat later.
  • EIEAviv2008, on 01/06/2009, -0/+12You want me to change it?

    Teen Girls + Digg = 1 divided by 0
  • mollysue111, on 01/06/2009, -0/+11It's not a very valid study in my book, it proves that the two are positively correlated, not that one is causing the other.
  • lolwaffle, on 01/06/2009, -2/+13I never understood why they start smoking in the first place. In elementary we had guests come in all the time with anti-smoking presentations, like that Suzy smoker mannequin that smokes and makes its cotton ball lungs dirty. They know it's wrong, so why do they start? Is it a complete lack of common sense?
  • casbar, on 01/06/2009, -1/+12You know how to tell if a girl is going to be fat later in life? Take a look at her mom. And smoking will add weight to anybody once they quit. Not just women.
  • shutaro, on 01/06/2009, -0/+11Firecrackers: The Silent Killer.
  • SRSco, on 01/06/2009, -0/+9I actually just got a $400,000 grant to study the reactions of goatse v. tubgirl in adolescents.
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 01/06/2009, -6/+15The lung cancer scare is overblown but maybe an acceptable white lie to help people avoid cigarettes. But that burning paper on cigs will defintely reduce your lung capacity over enough time.
  • jehan60188, on 01/06/2009, -2/+11hmm, a double cheeseburger sounds good right about now.
    too bad McD's is still on the breakfast menu for another half hour...
  • kevlar21, on 01/06/2009, -2/+11Maybe the fat girls smoke 'cause they're trying to get thin. Correlation doesn't equal causation and all that.
  • ncc74656m, on 01/06/2009, -1/+10Good: A fat smoking chick is double the evidence of why they do not, in fact, deserve love.
  • lisaawesome, on 01/06/2009, -0/+9You know I actually love their breakfast menu more than anything else they serve. I'm just never out of the house early enough to get some. I wish they would do 24 hour breakfast.
  • VyRuZ, on 01/06/2009, -1/+10SOMEONE CLOSE THE HOLE RIPPED INTO THE UNIVERSE!
  • npk9, on 01/06/2009, -0/+9Its too late, have you seen teenagers lately? The vast majority of them are FAT if not they have god awful tire around there belly smoking or not.
  • jason210, on 01/06/2009, -5/+14girls that smoke rule.
    insert 80s joke "any girl that will stick that in her mouth will stick anything in her mouth."
  • kingmanic, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8The whole Correlation = Causation fallacy is rampaging it's way across our culture.
  • bigteebo, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8Lots of people in Japan smoke, yet they have the highest life expectancies ever.
  • Balanced, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8People don't like to do what they're told. Rebellion is a common characteristic of teenagers (At least for a lot of Western cultures... Not sure if it's as widespread in Asia and other places.)
  • FemmeFroide, on 01/06/2009, -3/+10Hmm, I was never aware that I was a paradox.
  • Smokeydabear, on 01/06/2009, -1/+8Yeah you're right. I was just going for a play on words there.
  • derekmas10, on 01/06/2009, -0/+7in their fragile and sensitive minds, yes.
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 01/06/2009, -2/+9Its funny that Europe likes to criticize America for having unhealthy diet habits but they still smoke cigarettes like its 1950.
  • MWeather, on 01/06/2009, -1/+8Rich, check.
    Get laid a lot, check.
    Be funny, FAIL!

    2 out of 3 ain't bad. Being rich and getting lots of sex almost makes up for being a laughingstock.
  • Rudegar, on 01/06/2009, -1/+7so you tasted an ashtray? eewww kinda creepy thing to do
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6Most people do gain weight if they stop smoking. The tranquilizers help with that though.
  • shaka999, on 01/06/2009, -7/+13Looks like the gorgeous women smokers on Digg are giving you the thumbs down....lol.

    I gotta agree. Smoking is a personality disorder.
  • cadmiumpaint, on 01/06/2009, -2/+8Go to a bar and look at all the tore up chicks with nasty teeth and deep voices in their 30s that have been smoking a pack a day since high school. Yeah thats attractive.
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6If that's your attitude, you're probably just gay.
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -4/+10Nah rubbish, every women I know who smokes is skinny as a rake. It's when they stop smoking that it becomes a problem.
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