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A Wake-Forest University researchers have concluded that teens who watch pro wrestling are more likely to be violent, smoke, or have unprotected sex. They came to this conclusion after performing a study on 2,300 people between the ages of 16-20 years of age. “It may be the case that kids who have a personality that leads them to be aggressive gravitate to watching wrestling on TV,” Dr. Mark Wolfson is quoted as saying in a report published by the Southern Medical Journal.

Wolfson told Reuters Health, which covered the story today, that it is “definitely possible” that TV wrestling affects teenagers’ behavior. One of Wolfson’s previous studies determined that teenage girls who watched wrestling were more likely to get into fights or carry a weapon at later points of their adolescence.