Jenks (1994) conducted both measures of life and health satisfaction and measures of self-control between smokers and non-smokers. He found that "smokers were most likely to list relaxation along with psychological and physical addiction as a reasons for smoking." He also saw that male and female smokers ranked their reasons for smoking in the same order: psychological addiction, relaxation, physical addiction, pleasant activity, and weight control. He then concluded that male non-smokers tended to feel more satisfied and in control with their lives than male smokers. I believe the more control you have over you're life the more relaxed you are. This tells me that even though smokers might feel relaxed while smoking, in the long run they don't feel this, in fact they feel anxious because of their addiction. In the study of women smokers to non-smokers, the smokers were more likely to feel in control than the non-sm

Morgan, H. (1995) Tobacco smoking and gender. Journal of Educational

Prediction: I predict that the results of the survey will indicate that smokers are in fact less relaxed than non-smokers are.

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