The aerosol also includes particles of harmful organic compounds and metals like nickel, tin, and lead. Vaping is dangerous for adolescents, as nicotine can disrupt healthy brain development, which continues until around age 25. Vaping is also not safe for pregnant women, because nicotine can harm...
and adversely affect brain development and cognitive functioning (Arane & Goldman, 2016). Vaping during adolescence is also associated with increased cigarette smoking (Goldenson, Leventhal, Stone, McConnell, & Barrington-Trimis, 2017), and it is associated with other unhealthy and riskybehaviors(...
Nicotine harms adolescent brains Concerns of harm to brain development from nicotine are based on rat and mouse studies. The validity of extrapolation of brain “changes” in young rodents exposed to nicotine levels that are not relevant to human exposure is highly speculative. Similar brain changes...
Electronic cigarettes, also called e-cigs or vape pens, are electronic devices that heat a liquid and produce an aerosol — a mix of small chemical particles that are inhaled. Most contain nicotine, which is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development. As rates of youth who repo...
It highlights that e-cigarettes contain high doses of nicotine and other harmful chemicals, leading to adverse effects on stress levels, quality of life, and brain development in adolescents. The article also emphasizes that e-cigarettes serve as a gateway to traditional cigarette smoking, with ...
Helping teens understand the importance of brain development encourages them to wait, while preparing them to make reasonable and responsible decisions about cannabis in the future. The required legal age to purchase marajuana, both in states approved for recreational/general use and medical use only...
Trump’s first-term Surgeon General Jerome Adams gleefullyjoined in FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s claims of a “youth vaping epidemic,”calling vaping a public health emergency and citing the questionable theory that nicotine “harms” adolescent brain development. ...
Vaping products contain nicotine, they explain, which may affect adolescent brain development. They’re marketed in thousands of flavors, which “can increase the palatability of the product and help them be targeted specifically at children and young adults.” ...
Because it is important that teens be educated about the potential effects of vaping on their health, brain development, and risk of addiction, it is vital that everyone be educated about teens and vaping. https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2019/02/vaping-rises-among-teens This February 2019, ...
Theme 1: Perceptions about their adolescent vaping– “I just wish vaping wasn’t a thing” Specific concerns about vaping were raised by participants, with most focused on the potential health harms to the lungs, and a few also noting risks to brain development during adolescence. Participants ...