POLICY & BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
The Importance of Including Youth Research in Premarket Tobacco Product and Modified Risk Tobacco Product Applications to the Food and Drug Administration
Journal of Adolescent Health: For the past decade, an influx of new tobacco products has entered the U.S. market, including different types of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. These products are a source of great concern because youth find them appealing, harbor misperceptions about them, and use them to initiate tobacco and nicotine use.
Adolescent and Young Adult Use and Perceptions of Pod-Based Electronic Cigarettes
JAMA Network: This survey study of 445 adolescents and young adults revealed similar chances (40%) of experiencing negative health and social consequences from using pod-based and/or other types of e-cigarettes. Among 34 adolescents and young adults reporting any loss of autonomy from nicotine, there was no difference in mean Hooked On Nicotine Checklist scores between those using pod-based and other e-cigarettes.
Study of Nicotine Exposure
National Institutes of Health: More than 70% of adolescents report to have smoked a cigarette at least once. At the adolescent stage the brain has not completed its maturation. The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the brain area responsible for executive functions
A Middle School Program to Prevent E-Cigarette Use:
A Pilot Study of “CATCH My Breath”
Sage Journals: From 2017 to 2018, electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use increased 78% among high school students and 48% among middle school students in the United States. However, few e-cigarette prevention interventions have been evaluated. We determined the feasibility and initial effectiveness of “CATCH My Breath,” an e-cigarette prevention program, among a sample of middle schools in central Texas.
Public Health Concerns About Youth & Young Adult Use of JUUL
Public Health Law Center: The e-cigarette brand JUUL became the fastest growing e-cigarette brand in the U.S. in early 2017, surpassing other brands marketed by tobacco industry giants. JUUL was introduced in 2015 by PAX Labs, Inc., based in San Francisco.
E-Cigarette Use as a Predictor of Smoking
BMJ Journals: To prospectively examine vaping as a predictor of future cigarette smoking among youth with and without previous cigarette smoking experience. A secondary aim is to investigate whether vaping may desensitise youth to the dangers of smoking.
Nicotine and the Adolescent Brain
National Institutes of Health: Adolescence encompasses a sensitive developmental period of enhanced clinical vulnerability to nicotine, tobacco, and e-cigarettes. While there are sociocultural influences, data at preclinical and clinical levels indicate that this adolescent sensitivity has strong neurobiological underpinnings.
A Molecular Basis for Nicotine as a Gateway Drug
New England Journal of Medicine: On the historic occasion of the 122nd Shattuck Lecture and the 200th anniversary of the New England Journal of Medicine, we chose to address a topic that is at once scientific and personally historic. In recent debates over legalizing marijuana, from all-out acceptance in Colorado.