Researchers find a connection between teens who smoke and the amount of gray matter in sections of their brains.

<div class="block">Researchers find a connection between teens who smoke and the amount of gray matter in sections of their brains.</div>

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Researchers Find Link Between Teen Smoking and Brain Development

A new study offers insight into why teenagers might start and continue smoking during their adolescence. While researchers in the UK and China study that the neuroimaging and behavioral data of 2000 healthy teens, ages 14, 19 and 23 they did find an association between the volume of gray matter in the brains of teenagers and the desire to start smoking as well as the apparent strength of nicotine addiction. One of the study's co authors says the initiation of a smoking habit is most likely to occur during adolescence any way of detecting an increased chance of this. So we can target interventions can help save millions of lives. And of course, this research could help a lot of people.