Smokers and coffee drinkers are healthier, sorta
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According to a new (but small) study, smokers and coffee drinkers have a much higher step count than those who do not partake in either.
I'm not sure why we needed this study, as the results should be obvious.
Coffee drinkers walk back and forth to get coffee. Likewise, smokers go outside to have a cigarette.
Some of you may remember the study I posted a few years ago that showed that smokers and coffee drinkers spent more time working than those who didn't partake. According to the study, smokers and coffee drinkers felt guilty about going away from their desks for their vice, while non-smokers and non-coffee drinkers felt they were owed time away from their desks for "equality" sake. The non-vice people falsely believed that they spent the same amount of time away from their desks as those who engaged in smoking and coffee drinking. The study showed that the non-vicers spent as much as 3 times as much time away from their desks as the vicers.
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@raphjd said in Smokers and coffee drinkers are healthier, sorta:
According to a new (but small) study, smokers and coffee drinkers have a much higher step count than those who do not partake in either.
I'm not sure why we needed this study, as the results should be obvious.
Coffee drinkers walk back and forth to get coffee. Likewise, smokers go outside to have a cigarette.
Some of you may remember the study I posted a few years ago that showed that smokers and coffee drinkers spent more time working than those who didn't partake. According to the study, smokers and coffee drinkers felt guilty about going away from their desks for their vice, while non-smokers and non-coffee drinkers felt they were owed time away from their desks for "equality" sake. The non-vice people falsely believed that they spent the same amount of time away from their desks as those who engaged in smoking and coffee drinking. The study showed that the non-vicers spent as much as 3 times as much time away from their desks as the vicers.
Interesting... completely believable, although I would say the results are more akin to:
Smokers and coffee drinkers exercise more
I understand the correlation of "healthier" with "take more steps", but that's clearly not the overall case.
For example: caffeine itself is a diuretic (it takes water to process in your body) - BUT the amount of water needed to process a shot of espresso (much less regular coffee) is a fraction of the water in the drink itself! Thus, when you drink a cup of coffee (or espresso), the net intake of water is POSITIVE, not negative.
Similarly, the health benefits walking outside to get a smoke, in my mind, are likely more than offset by the detrimental effects of the nicotine (albeit, perhaps less so if you go outside to put on a patch, vs actually smoking!)
Kind of a "prove the obvious" study - which, as the 2nd half of your post reveals, sometimes is surprising, as the "obvious" isn't really the truth in all cases! SCIENCE!
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@raphjd One problem I've had with smokers is that they tend to develop instant alliances with other smokers.
For instance, the manager of a place I worked with was a smoker. That resulted in him becoming automatic friends with any of the workers that also smoked - and they would have their two 15 minute breaks per day to chat away while pickling their lungs. -
But you'd find that with people with anything in common.
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Yes.. people with anything in common tend to become allies. Unfortunately, when you are a genius and the rest of the people are morons, the morons form an alliance to make your life hell. You would not believe some of the juvenile, petty, unscrupulous nonsense that I was forced to endure in various jobs.
I have even had job interviews in which the interviewers have been honest with me, and explained that they were not going to hire me, because I was more qualified than THEY were! They would say it in a way such as "you would not be happy here because it is beneath you". That is true.. but it's a double-edged sword. When overqualified, I was not hired because of that reason. And when underqualified, my real skills could not compete with the lies that other people put on their resumes.
