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Old 10-April-06, 12:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Other: Violent games make young men smoke marijuana

That's according to a study carried out by Dr Sonya Brady of the University of California.

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The study, carried out by Dr Brady and Professor Karen Matthews at the University of Pittsburgh, involved a group of 100 male undergraduates aged 18 to 21, asked to play either Grand Theft Auto III or The Simpsons: Hit and Run. In GTA the player took the role of a criminal and was instructed by the Mafia to beat up a drug dealer with a baseball bat. In The Simpsons: Hit and Run the player took on the role of Homer Simpson attempting to get his daughter's science project to school before it can be marked late.

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