Europeans Prefer Cigarettes to Sex?

Quinn, why you say that??? Shame on you:)

wooooooowwwww, goign to read the text.

oh, sex is less addicting than sex - a little different, no?

How about you Cass? Which would you find easier? Giving up sex or smokes for a month?

umm..Im not European so, my vote doesnt count

right?

Can I have another option please?

I would like to know the ages and sex of those surveyed -- it makes a big difference, I think.

thats true bandylu, also would like lots of other useful information on background etc...single vs married, etc

Also matters how good one's partner is.

My daughter is getting a minor in statistics on her way to her doctorate in cognitive psychology and she assures me that absolutely anything can be 'proven' depending on how one plays with one's statistics.

Years ago, as an undergrad psych major, I took a stat course. One book that was required reading was a book called "How to Lie with Statistics"!

None of this is a surprise to me, but this kind of overview re statistics and headlines should always be out there for the newly tuned.

Darn tootin' about things being "proven" by stats. Same with "studies" -- who paid for the study? How big of a sample was it? Etc. I just got an email from my MIL about how important it is to drink water -- that's nice, but it was a mind-boggling hodgepodge of unsubstantiated "statistics" and "studies" like



and



There was just a thread about that, and I was tempted to send one link that littlek found about how much water there is in food, for example, but didn't want to be obnoxious and the general premise is fine. I mean, drinking water is good. But the first one -- what on earth is that supposed to mean? Decrease by 79% from what? No glasses of water per day? 4.75 glasses of water per day? Subsisting on burnt toast? And the second one -- what kind of lame-ass study is that? How about the number one cause of daytime fatigue being... LACK OF SLEEP?

This stuff bothers me more than it should...

Giving up sex was way easier than giving up smoking for me.

Sex, you mean, just because I count one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight ... and smoke, that is worth such a statistic? :wink:

I think a great deal has to do with the comfort and or enjoyment..or both even you have with your partner, if you have one. If you dont have one, well then, its easy to give up something you dont partake in, isnt it.
yep..the statistics I always question, but thats just me...or at least I thought it was, glad to have company
I always end up with many many more questions but, I enjoy seeing the information anyway.
walter....

A partner for sex is definitely an incentive to enjoy sex over cigarettes.

One thing for sure, when you have neither, a pack of cigarettes is easier to find than a sex partner.

The catch is the journalistic headline.
It all ends up in saying that nicotine is damn addictive.

Another good journalistic headline said that English males prefer football and beer to sex.
It was a poll made during the World Cup. "What things you enjoy the most?"

fbaezer..thats funny...what a poll..my guess is that the guys ranked what they liked to do, and the statistics forgot to add that they'd like that all at once, no telling anyway but..darn curious those stats. Oh yeah..and when did they take that poll anyway...in the middle of the game?
silly I tell ya.

There have been similar surveys before. It seems people will give up almost anything before they give up cigarettes. : (