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By TH8' ASSOCIATED PRESS and I.Q., emotion,` ' al°MMis in girls and boys, and cancer in children are `meddcai topics this week. ._ .: ' High School Smoking `'- Nonsmoking high ach o o 1. -`atudients hadihigher LQ.'e and - attained higher aca d e m i c achievements -than students •.who smoked; a survey cover- :Jtng 6,810 studentsi in Newton,• + Mass., high achooLs ic;dicates: ' aad. F' Drs. Eva J: Salber `.Brian MacMahon and Miss ~ Barbara Welsh of the ' 8ar.- ~ vard University . Schooi' ' of Public• Iiealtlt, who made the survey, aaid they als+a found, that I:Q:'s: were .lower for heavy smokers than foi: light : emokers.. . In a, report ' iR p"trtca,. .. the Journal of I the Aznerican Academy of Pediatrics, the researchers said the relation•, 1.ship between amoking, an& ac-' 'ademie achievements is com- plex. . Tliey did not conclude twhether smoking results from 1ow academic achievement -or that low, achievement re-, sult„s fr!?m smoking or that both are caused by A:.third circumstance. But' they offer: ed'this theory: Pupils with supeiioc grades- are in good standing with~ their teachers and parentsj and are envied by their ciass-' : mates. It may be that :chil-I ren who can't make good' grades "find in taking up = smoking a way of demonstra- -.ting their maturity and achieving acceptance in a (different) group: ... " i3opa 1ttv--~er tl•- r-eP of A SWN! . : San Bernardino, Ca]1i'fornia pugust 18, 1962 THIS WEEK''S REPQRT. vlediCt11e a BY ASSOCIATED PREKbI Smol~g and I:Q., emotional' proGlems In girls and boy;a, and' cancer in children are medical i topics this week." Nlgh School Smoking, Non,smoking high school stu- dents had higher I.Q.s and at- tntned higher academic achieve. ment than students who smoked, a survey . covering 6,810 students In Newton, Mass.,, high schools jnfficates. . . . . Drs. Eva J. Salber and Brian IviacNiahon and Miss Barbara VPelsh of' the Harvard LJniiversity School of' Public Health, who _made the survey, said they also ; i found that I.Qs were lower for ' heavy smokers than for light imokers; • . . In a report Itt Pcdiatrics, the • ' Purnal! of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the _ researchers. '•aai11 the relalionship between smoking and academic aehieve+ ment is complex: • •`' THey did not conclude whether smoking results trom low aca+ detnic achievement, or that low achievement results irom smola4 in$ or that both ~ are caused by a third circumstance. ; ' •'1?hey offered this theory: '~ Pupilfr with i superior grades are in good standing with their teach.' ers'and parents and are en•ried' by. .. their classmates. It may be that children who can't make good grades "find in taking up amok-. ing a way of demonstrating their ', maturity and achieving aecepG ance in different groups." Fnlo+don*1 ProhlemR ' '