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How does nicotine in e-cigarettes affect young brains? Researchers are teasing out answers. Research on young mice and rats shows how nicotine hijacks brain systems involved in learning, memory, impulse control and addiction. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

How does nicotine in e-cigarettes affect young brains? Researchers are teasing out answers. Research on young mice and rats shows how nicotine hijacks brain systems involved in learning, memory, impulse control and addiction.

The link between vaping and severe lung problems is getting a lot of attention.

But scientists say they're also worried about vaping's effect on teenage brains.

"Unfortunately, the brain problems and challenges may be things that we see later on down the road," says Nii Addy, associate professor of psychiatry and cellular and molecular physiology at Yale School of Medicine.

Potential problems include attention disorders like ADHD, impulse control issues and susceptibility to substance abuse.

There's no easy way to study precisely what nicotine is doing in a teenager's brain. But research on young animals shows that nicotine can interfere with processes that are critical to memory, learning, focus, impulse control and brain development.

"It's unfortunate that a whole generation of teenagers are basically guinea pigs for the effects of nicotine in the brain," says Frances Leslie, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Leslie says the problem is that nicotine mimics acetylcholine, an important chemical messenger in the brain. So nicotine is able to fool brain cells that have something called a nicotinic receptor.

Unfortunately, she says, "those parts of the brain that are actively maturing during adolescence are being actively controlled by nicotinic receptors."

Nicotine also acts on the brain's dopamine system, which plays a role in desire, pleasure, reward and impulse control.

It's still not clear what tweaking the dopamine system does to the brain of an adolescent human.

But in young mice, Leslie says, the result is alarming. "A very brief, low-dose exposure to nicotine in early adolescence increases the rewarding properties of other drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamine and these are long-term changes," she says.

Of course, nicotine-vaping products also contain lots of other substances, including flavors like bubblegum and pink lemonade. And Addy wonders whether these flavors might offer a dopamine kick of their own.

"If both nicotine and flavors are both acting on this same dopamine system in the brain," he says, "is that somehow facilitating and making it more likely that people will take products that have both flavors and nicotine?"

So Addy and a team of researchers studied rats that drank plain and flavored liquids containing nicotine.

"What we found is that the sweet flavors can make the nicotine more palatable in the oral cavity," he says, "but also act in the brain to increase nicotine taking."

This effect is especially troubling in a teenage brain, Addy says, which is more sensitive than an adult brain to rewards.

Animal research by another Yale University scientist suggests that vaping during adolescence can lead to long-term brain changes, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Addy says.

"If there's exposure to nicotine early on, that can influence attentional processes later in life," he says.

So what might help reduce teen vaping?

One approach is to ban flavored products, something that was proposed by the Trump administration in September.

And if the ban happens, it could reduce the number of new vapers, says Janet Audrain-McGovern, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research shows that "if the first e-cigarette that you used was flavored, then you're more likely to go on and use an e-cigarette again," Audrain-McGovern says.

Another promising approach is to make nicotine-vaping products more expensive. When taxes forced up the price of tobacco products, Audrain-McGovern says, the number of young customers declined.

Finally, Audrain-McGovern thinks it should be harder for teenagers to buy vaping products online.

At the moment, many vaping websites simply ask visitors if they are underage before allowing a sale.

"I don't think it's that difficult to click the box that you're 18 or you're 21 and, if you have a credit card, to get those products," Audrain-McGovern says.

In August, Juul Labs launched a program that offers incentives to retailers that implement an age-verification system for customers.

But some measures that helped discourage smoking probably won't work as well against vaping, Audrain-McGovern says. For example, studies suggest that physically active teens are less likely than their peers to smoke but no less likely to vape.

Another challenge is that it's hard for scientists and regulators to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the vaping world.

"Teens who maybe four years ago were using predominately vape pens are now using Juul and some of the pod mods," Audrain-McGovern says.

And those newer products are designed to deliver higher levels of nicotine to the brain. More nicotine makes the products more addictive.

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Vaping Nicotine And The Teenage Brain : Shots - Health ...

Following the recent enactment of federal legislation clarifying the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate all tobacco products, including those containing synthetic nicotine, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)wrote to four leading vaping companies that sell synthetic nicotine products to request information regarding the health and safety of their products.The Chairman also asked each of the companies about their plans to comply with federal regulation, details on their marketing practices, and their role in the promotion of vaping and nicotine use by kids and teens.

In the letters, Pallone notes the companies have appeared to target younger audiences when marketing their products. For example, an ad from Puff Bar marketed itself as the perfect escape from theparental texts; 7 Daze released a range of fruity flavors using synthetic nicotine salts; VaporSalon recently advertised an in-store pizza party for anyone, including people under 21; and a post on Daddys Vapors Instagram states, musical education leads to better test scores with hashtags solely related to vaping.

Given the well-established health consequences of nicotine addiction, I am concerned by the proliferation of synthetic nicotine products like yours when so little is known about the specific consequences of their use.I also remain deeply troubled by the evident influence of your products on youth use of e-cigarettes, Pallone wrote.The rapid increase of adolescents using these products is alarming in its similarity to the early tactics of other tobacco companies that contributed to the emergence of the youth vaping epidemic.

Pallone also raised concerns that prior to enactment of legislation clarifying FDAs authority to regulate synthetic nicotine products, the four companies appeared to be attempting to circumvent agency regulation by selling so-called tobacco-free synthetic nicotine products rather than tobacco-derived nicotine. In the letters, Pallone noted that Puff Bar co-CEO Patrick Beltran claimed, It's well known that this product [synthetic nicotine] is not under the FDA jurisdiction, and VaporSalon posted on its company Facebook page that it switched to synthetic tobacco-free nicotine to be outside of the FDAs regulations.

As FDA continues its ongoing efforts to ensure that the products on the market have been authorized for the protection of public health, your company appears to have been intentionally skirting regulatory authority by using synthetic nicotine instead of tobacco-derived nicotine, Pallone continued.In light of the omnibuss recent clarification of FDAs regulatory authority over all tobacco products, including those containing synthetic nicotine and to address the concerns I have outlined above, please provide the following requested information, as well as a briefing by April 5, 2022.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an alarming rise in the rate of youth using disposable e-cigarette products.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions 2021 National Youth Tobacco Study (NYTS), more than two million high school and middle school students reported using e-cigarettes in the last 30 days, with more than half using disposable devices.Flavored e-cigarettes are the primary driver of the shift to disposable vaping products among adolescents.In 2020, approximately 85 percent of adolescents using e-cigarettes exclusively used flavored products, and those numbers remained virtually unchanged in 2021.

Pallone has long been a champion of protecting youth from the harms of tobacco usage.As Chairman, Pallone has led Committee efforts to address the youth vaping crisis, including: launching aninquiryin August 2019 on the impact of e-cigarettes on adolescents; holding ahearingin February 2020 on e-cigarette manufacturers impact on public health; and authoringlegislationto address the youth tobacco epidemic, including language clarifying FDAs authority over synthetic nicotine, whichpassedthe House in February 2020.

Last week, President Biden signed H.R. 2471, the bipartisan and bicameral omnibus appropriations and Ukraine supplemental package, into law, which contained the provision championed by Pallone clarifying FDAs authority to regulate synthetic nicotine products.:

As part of the inquiry, Chairman Pallone requested answers to a series of questions, including the following:

The full letter to each company is available below:

7 Daze

Daddys Vapor

Puff Bar

VaporSalon

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Pallone Questions Vaping Companies Over Marketing of Synthetic Nicotine Products to Teens - Energy and Commerce Committee

More adolescents failed to quit smoking in 2020 than in any of the previous 13 years, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 2020 was the first year the research team had data on attempts to quit e-cigarettes, and it showed that around 4 percent of adolescents unsuccessfully attempted to quit e-cigarettes.

E-cigarettes have been pushed to adult smokers as an alternative to traditional, combustible cigarettes some evidence shows they might be less dangerous, and theres mixed evidence that they could push adults to quit smoking altogether. But the picture might be different for teens, who started vaping in droves in 2018 and are far less likely to be cigarette smokers first. The new analysis shows that for younger people, the introduction of e-cigarettes made quitting more difficult.

The new study includes data from the Monitoring the Future study, which surveys eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students. It includes a question asking the participants if they had ever tried to stop smoking and found that they could not. In 2020, it added a question asking if theyd ever tried to stop vaping nicotine and found that they could not. From 1997 to 2019, the survey found that the number of students who reported using cigarettes and the percent of adolescents estimated to have tried and failed to quit smoking both dropped.

But in 2020, those numbers popped back up. More students reported smoking cigarettes, and the analysis estimated that around 2 percent tried and failed to quit smoking. Combined with the 4 percent who tried and failed to quit vaping, the paper found that just under 6 percent of adolescents had unsuccessfully tried to quit using nicotine products that year.

The data comes as the Food and Drug Administration continues to try and create e-cigarette and vaping policies that benefit adult smokers while limiting their use by kids and teenagers. The contribution of e-cigarettes to unsuccessful nicotine quit attempts among adolescents is substantial and warrants consideration as the US formulates policies to regulate e-cigarettes, the authors of the new paper wrote.

The agency is still reviewing applications from some e-cigarette companies, despite having a September 2021 deadline to tell companies if they can keep products on the market. So far, it has authorized tobacco-flavored products from one company and rejected over 200 others. It has yet to rule on Juul, the company most tightly linked to kids and vaping.

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Teens are struggling to quit smoking and vaping - The Verge

Vaping increases your risk of diabetes.

That is the contention of a new study by a team of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. They analyzed data from 600,000 Americans and they say their findings, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, show a clear link between e-cigarette use and high blood sugar.

Should vapers be worried? Absolutely not.

This study is just the latest in a long line of alarmist reports that seem intent on convincing us that, one way or another, vaping is much more dangerous than we first thought. The issue of vaping has become so intensely politicized that the so-called science swirling around it is nothing more than a pool of harmful disinformation.

The sheer volume of ailments supposedly caused by vaping is staggering. In just the last few months, separate studies from reputable research institutions have claimed to discover some as-yet-unknown link between e-cigarettes and cancer,stress, gum disease, dry eye and even erectile dysfunction. The methodology behind these studies has been shown up for its fundamental flaws time and time again, but the world of public health science continues to churn them out.

What next? Will we soon be told that vaping is single-handedly responsible for obesity and Alzheimers too? Dont bet against it. The immensely powerful anti-vaping lobby will stop at nothing to villainize electronic cigarettes, even if that means citing them as the cause of every public health issue they can shake a stick at.

We dont have to search very hard to understand why. Like so many that went before it, the new Johns Hopkins study alleging a connection between vaping and diabetes bears the name of Michael Bloomberg. Vaping alarmism is unscientific and transparently political, and Bloomberg is the man behind a great deal of it.

In 2019, Bloomberg Philanthropies launched a new program designed to combat what it called the youth e-cigarette epidemic, backed up by a whopping $160 million of funding. Since then, Bloomberg has effectively positioned himself at the epicenter of the anti-vaping lobby. His fellow travelers on this venture include the World Health Organization, whose Tobacco Free Initiative project boasts Bloomberg Philanthropies as a partner.

Ironically, that project spends most of its time and resources bashing e-cigarettes and issuing diktats to governments around the world to crack down on vaping, despite them being tobacco-free. And that is precisely the problem with alarmism and misinformation around vaping: it is based on politics rather than science.

The conflation of vaping and smoking by Bloomberg, the WHO and countless other organizations is actively dangerous. The science on this is crystal clear that vaping is much healthier than smoking. It is around 200 times less likely to give you cancer. (And no, it does not cause erectile dysfunction.)

Crucially, vaping is not just healthier than smoking it is also the silver bullet that helps people escape the harms of tobacco. Electronic cigarettes are by far the most effective tool we have ever discovered for helping people quit smoking traditional cigarettes. When smokers use vaping to quit, they are successful approximately three-fourths of the time. Thats a much higher success rate than using nicotine patches, going cold turkey, or indeed any other method of quitting.

Across the world, people are quitting smoking en masse. They are spontaneously making the choice to adopt a healthier lifestyle. But quitting smoking is not easy. It is an addiction, after all. If we believe in freedom of choice and agree that people who want to quit smoking should be able to do so, the best course of action is to make freely available all the information and resources smokers will need to move on from cigarettes. Vaping is an indispensable part of that.

But thanks in large part to Bloomberg and the World Health Organization, thats the opposite of what is happening. Vaping is shrouded in misinformation and more and more governments and regulatory agencies around the world are bringing the hammer down on vaping. It is doing immeasurable damage to public health and our most basic liberties.

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Anti-Vaping Study With Bloomberg's Name on It InsideSources - InsideSources

Friday 25 March 2022 by Mark Molloy

A man discreetly vaping on a bus has definitely got away without anybody noticing, by only blowing out gently downwards towards his legs.

Simon Williams, who also vapes in the pub using exactly the same discreet method emerged from a thick cloud of smoke earlier to get off a bus without anyone noticing that he had been vaping throughout his journey.

Speaking earlier he told us, Youve just got to blow it slightly downwards, and cover the vape with your hand.

I got on the bus earlier for the eight minute journey to work, and realised that I hadnt had a puff on my vape since just before the bus arrived at the bus stop.

So I had to have a sneaky little puff or two because I had a good six minutes before I was getting off the bus and I couldnt possibly wait that long.

As long as you cup the vape in your hand and blow out the tons and tons of thick smoke very gently when you exhale then nobody has a clue youre doing it its an absolute piece of piss.

I tend to look out of the window too, whilst blowing the smoke the other way and I just look totally innocent. Nobody says a word.

Well to be honest I cant actually see anybody else on the bus I cant see my hand in front of my face -but I assume they have no idea anyone is vaping because its a really clever way of doing it.

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Man secretly vaping on the bus definitely 'getting away with it' - NewsThump