While many users do find short-term memory and focus improvement, according to peer-reviewed research published in Neuropsychopharmacology, chronic nicotine exposure disrupts neural connectivity, impairs attention, memory, and accelerates age-related brain atrophy.[30] These influencers and TikTok Docs conveniently ignore nicotines long-term cognitive damage , especially in young people, the most vulnerable population
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On the other hand, tobacco use, which annually kills more people worldwide than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, is not even a line item in the $8 billion U.S