Risk Factors

Dieting Leads Girls To Start Smoking

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 15th, 2001

Teen girls who diet up to once a week are twice as likely to become smokers, compared to girls who do not diet, said researchers from the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, both in Massachusetts.

Adolescent females who diet more often are four times more likely to start smoking. S. Bryn Austin and colleagues suggest that dieting may cause psychological distress and exacerbate weight concerns, which lead to an escalation of weight-control methods such as smoking.

Almost 1,300 middle-school girls and boys in the Boston area participated in the study from 1995 to 1997. The association between dieting frequency at...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-03-15)

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