After surveying 3,567 freshmen at the University of Illinois Student Health Center, Dr. Dorothy Dunn reports that there is an inverse association between grade average and smoking.
Of students with an “A” average, only 16.7 percent smoked, while 59.1 of “F” average (the lowest grade) students smoked.
Of those who smoked 12 months ago, 56 percent had increased the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
Sixty percent of the freshmen did not smoke.
The amount of allowance seemed to have a relationship to smoking. When parents provided full financial support, the number of freshmen who smoked was above average. Only 20 percent of those who received sole financial support from scholarships smoked.