{"id":15,"date":"2005-10-11T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveneppler.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/15"},"modified":"2005-10-11T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T18:14:52","slug":"smoking-associated-with-lower-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/smoking-associated-with-lower-iq","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Associated With Lower IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article found on digg.com:<\/p>\n<p>Smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and feel more alert. But years of tobacco use may have the opposite effect, dimming the speed and accuracy of a person&#8217;s thinking ability and bringing down their IQ, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmnews.org\/article2720.html\">read more<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/science\/Smoking_Associated_With_Lower_IQ\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article found on digg.com: Smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and feel more alert. But years of tobacco use may have the opposite effect, dimming the speed and accuracy of a person&#8217;s thinking ability and bringing down their IQ, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers. &#8230; <a title=\"Smoking Associated With Lower IQ\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/smoking-associated-with-lower-iq\" aria-label=\"Read more about Smoking Associated With Lower IQ\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveneppler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}