Brain development: Teenagers who vape risk serious harm to their brain development, primarily because their brains and bodies are still in the developmental phases at that point in their lives. A nicotine addiction can impair their ability to focus, to remember, to stay attentive and alert. Lung...
Exposure to nicotine can interfere with healthy brain development among teens, worsen mood disorders and mental health problems, and affect their ability to learn and pay attention, Harlow and Richter said. It also puts them at increased risk of addiction to other substances, as ...
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(...
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...
As a person’s brain is not fully developed until about 25 years of age, e-cigarettes are associated with decreasing brain development, mood disorders, nicotine addiction and the use of other abusive substances such as alcohol. While the first electronic cigarette was patented in 1930, the first...
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 ...
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...
1 All vape liquid contains nicotine, which is addictive and harmful to brain development, affecting attention, mood, impulse control, and memory.2 Not only that, vape aerosols contain heavy metals and chemicals that are linked to lung disease.2 Support someone who is trying to quit vaping by ...
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 both the expectant mother and the developing fetus. Connections between neurons are still forming in th...
. Battery explosions made the news regularly, although an FDAstudy of battery mishapsshowed that such events were easily avoidable and not especially common. Old rodent studies were brought out of mothballs to show a potential link between adolescent nicotine use and compromised brain development....