title: The effect of cigarette smoking history on muscular and cardiorespiratory endurance.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cigarette smoking history on physical fitness in younger adults. Small, insignificant differences in BMI between non-smokers and smokers were shown regardless of cigarette smoking history duration. Although the differences in muscular endurance increased in the samples with progressing cigarette smoking history duration, a highly significant difference in aerobic endurance was observed between the group of non-smokers and smokers with a history of smoking up to 5 years and persisted at the same level in smokers with a history of smoking for longer than 10 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiological Anthropology and Methodology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. mmisigoj@kif.hr
authors.forename: Marjeta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Misigoj-Durakovic
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bok
authors.forename: Maroje
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soric
authors.forename: Dražen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dizdar
authors.forename: Zijad
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Durakovic
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jukic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel; D010807:Physical Endurance / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000502:physiology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult