Abstract
In a study of the relationship between bodybuild and incidence of cigarette smoking, data were available from two longitudinal growth studies. Measures made at about age 18 included weight, height, biacromial diameter, biiliac diameter, and calf circumference. Some 14 years later, approximately 100 persons of each sex from this sample reported on their smoking habits, permitting their classification as nonsmokers or cigarette smokers. No statistically significant morphological differences between these groups were found for either sex on any of the five anthropometric measures. In half the sample these same measures had been made during childhood; they also showed no differences between the groups indicating no relationship between presmoking bodybuild and later smoking behavior. These findings are compared to previously published research reporting smokers to be generally larger and heavier than nonsmokers.
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