Pipe Smoking Makes You Smarter

[admin]

Here's an old article I just found that I thought you guys might appreciate.
Pipe Smoking Makes You Smarter

 

[maduroman]

duh....

 

[admin]

LOL maduroman.

 

[chuckw]

Does your chewing gum loose it's flavor on the bed post overnight?
Yesterday, I could't spell truckdriver. Now I was one.
see what pipe smoking has done for my smarts?

 

[pstlpkr]

I can walk and chew gum.

However, I seem to fall into my easy chair when I smoke my pipe.

 

[unclearthur]

HUH?

 

[igloo]

Now if could jus tech me hoow to spelll words and write goode english.

 

[admin]

Some of you guys need to smoke your pipes more. LOL.

 

[admin]

"You can't fool me, 'cause I'm a moron"
Where's that from?
Warning: you will disclose your age.

 

[pstlpkr]

Bugs Bunny,

Jack and the Bean Stalk.

21 and holding for over 31 years.
Edit:

It's "Jack-Wabbit and the Bean Stalk"

 

[dunendain]

My wife will swear that I have better patience and problem solving since I started smoking a pipe.

 

[cortezattic]

People have called me a Moron; but the joke's on them. I'm really Presbyterian.

 

[admin]

You got it Lawrence, Bugs Bunny!

 

[unclearthur]

Iggy . Hukt un fonix wurkt fer me!

 

[dunendain]

Well Cortez, this Lutheran/Methodist would never call you a moron. I think you are quite a clever fellow. How is it up there?

 

[pstlpkr]

Hey Kevin,
I always knew a thorough understanding of the Classics would come in handy some day.

 

[jvnshr]

another interesting article forgotten here (OTRP)

 

[deathmetal]

Some useful links:
http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/liars.htm
http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

 

[mso489]

How did this get exhumed after five years? Anyway ... there might be a tidbit of truth here. I doubt pipe smoking is the cause of "being smarter." Since it was long associated with academics, it may have attracted people who had the aura of intelligence, whether they were smart or not. Twain and Einstein certainly burnished the image with certifiable brilliance. Smoking a pipe does involve more know-how than other forms of smoking and tobacco use, beyond sucking up nails, puffing cigars, or chewing chaw, so pipes may select a higher level of learning aptitude, dexterity, and self-governance that denotes intelligence. Being a pipe smoker, of course, I believe that pipe smokers are a higher level of being, except when I get the belt loops of my coat caught in the storm door; then all bets are off.

 

[deathmetal]

I doubt pipe smoking is the cause of "being smarter."

Mainly because nothing is; IQ cannot be increased (but can be made more effective with discipline and in some cases, learning). I agree that this study probably gets it backward. Another way to put it: smarter people are more likely to be drawn toward pipes, and on top of that, there are cognitive benefits to nicotine which make the brain run better.
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