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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — In a new study, teens who
loved listening to music blasting at high decibels on their MP3 players
were also more likely than others to smoke marijuana, while those who
listened to loud music at concerts and clubs were more likely to drink
heavily and have sex without a condom.
Experts stressed that the findings don’t prove that loud music or
concerts have anything to do with pot smoking, drinking or unprotected
sex, only that there is an association.
“These risk-taking behaviors do go together, but listening to loud
music does not cause drug use and drug use does not cause loud-music
listening,” said Valerie Stratton, an associate professor emerita of
psychology at Penn State Altoona. She was not involved in the new
study
Still, Stratton said, a better understanding of how various behaviors
work together could help researchers develop ways to prevent young people
from hurting their health. “The message may be to consider all aspects of
this adolescent lifestyle when trying to intervene or work with these
high-risk individuals,” she said.
The Dutch researchers launched the study to understand the connection
between types of music-listening and behaviors considered to be
unsafe.
“When adolescents take one risk, they also tend to take other risks,”
explained study author Ineke Vogel, a researcher at Erasmus MC University
Medical Center Rotterdam. “So, if you want to prevent them from performing
such risky behaviors or want them to stop or reduce such behaviors, you
best address them together in one integrated program.”
In the new study, researchers got competed surveys from 944 young
people aged 15 to 25 — average age 18 — in an inner-city neighborhood in
the Netherlands. Almost two-thirds of the participants were female, and
two-thirds weren’t of Dutch heritage but instead Moroccan, Turkish or of
other ethnicities.
Those who listened to levels of music on MP3 players that the
researchers considered risky — about 30 percent of those who replied to
the survey — were more likely to smoke pot.
Why? The study authors have a theory: “The combination of cannabis use
and risky MP3-player listening could be related to the existential period
in life that constitutes adolescence and emerging adulthood, not only
because of the positive feeling to be alive and the experience of
existential meaning, but also as something that can fill existential
emptiness.”
Those who listened to loud music at concerts and clubs — about 48
percent of the total — were more likely to binge drink and inconsistently
use condoms during intercourse.
Overall, a third said they smoked, a third said they’d engaged in binge
drinking within the past month, 13 percent said they’d recently smoked pot
and about 38 percent said they hadn’t always used condoms during sex.
Study co-author Alex Burdorf, a professor of determinants of population
health at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, said the
findings offer insight into how the things that young people do are
interconnected. “From a prevention point of view, we would focus on
general strategies on how to cope with temptations and try to teach these
risk groups how to achieve this,” Burdorf said.
The study appears in the June issue of the journal
Pediatrics.
More information
For more about protecting yourself from noise — like loud music — try the U.S. National
Library of Medicine.
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