1Crnogorska sportska akademija,Podgorica
DUVANSKA NARKOMANIJA I SPORTSKA RADNA SPOSOBNOST STUDENATA
DUVANSKA NARKOMANIJA I SPORTSKA RADNA SPOSOBNOST STUDENATA
Sport Mont 2005, III(8-9),
250-255
A study performed at the Technology Faculty of the University of Podgorica confirms
that smoking is a very hazardous habit among young people and clearly demonstrates
that students who smoke suffer a definite reduction in bioenergetic potential during physical
activity.
Nicotine addiction is a far more dangerous habit than was once believed. Cigarette
smoke is a mixture of miniature drops of katran which is composed of thousands of toxic
substances. For this reason, the study was devised to investigate the effects of smoking on
students' athletic abilities using the Cooper's running test of 2400 meters for men and 1600
for women.
Three hundred students participated in the study of which 200 were male and 100
female. A total of 32% of participants were active, heavy smokers, 55% of these smokers
being male and 26% female students.
Results of the running test confirmed that nonsmoking males fmished in 11.04 min,
while nonsmoking females fmished in 9.45 min. Student participants who were heavy
smokers fmished the same test in 13.24 min. for males and 11.30 min for females. In both
cases, a positive correlation was found for males of 0.87 and for females 0.90.
It is clearly evident that students addicted to cigarette smoking obtained far worse
results in the Cooper's running test of aerobic fitness as opposed to their counterparts who
vvere light smokers or never smoked. N/A
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