Men who smoke experience greater mental declines over time than men who never smoked, but the same link does not appear among women, said a British study published in the United States on Monday.
The research suggested that the effects of long-term cigarette smoking show up in terms of memory loss, inability to connect past experience with actions in the present, and a drop in overall cognition skills.
_Men do think about sex more often than women overall, but not all the time -- and the gap is not as wide as you might think, a new study finds. "The absolute number of sexual thoughts is dramatically less than the urban legend that men think about sex every seven seconds," says study researcher Terri Fisher, PhD, professor of psychology at The Ohio State University at Mansfield.
She isn't sure where that seven-second figure originated. However, it has persisted. So she decided to investigate by asking college students to track their thoughts of sex.