The Conversation asked Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, a health policy expert who specializes in tobacco control and e-cigarette products, to explain the pros and cons of the FDAs authorization and what it could mean for vulnerable populations
For people under the age of 25, nicotine has been proven to negatively affect brain development, leading to lasting cognitive and behavioral impairments, and negatively affecting focus, memory and learning. Another substance found in these products is formaldehyde
The same logic applies in reverse
Some long and smooth, some short and steep, but always either rising or falling, fighting the current upstream or flowing downhill
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Here are the long-term trends of youth cigarette smoking prevalence from the nationally-representative youth survey Monitoring the Future, going back to 1975: Source: Monitoring the Future tables and figures