80 Percent Of Adolescents Who Play Sports Don't Smoke, Spanish Study Finds

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

A research work carried out in sample of adolescents aged between 13 and 18 from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza has analysed the relationship between sport activity and tobacco consumption. According to this work, 59.2 percent of the Spanish adolescents are physically active, although there are significant differences according to sex (71.1 percent of boys, as against 46.7 percent of girls).

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