The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, used a new way of analyzing PET (positron emission tomography) scans to create movies of the dopamine response during smoking to demonstrate for the first time that smoking-induced dopamine activation occurs in a different brain region and much faster in nicotine-dependent men than women
Herbal cigarettes, widely sold in India and abroad as natural, tobacco-free and even therapeutic alternatives to conventional cigarettes, are not safer than regular tobacco cigarettes
Weve been able to differentiate between a single motion, which could be confused with eating or drinking, and a sequence of motions more clearly linked to the act of smoking a cigarette, said Ming-Chun Huang, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science who led the technical aspect of the study
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These efforts seem to have paid off with a high number of adolescents aged between 10-18 already active smokers
