The same study says the habit further reduces their brain powers.
Teenagers who start smoking by 14 years of age have markedly less grey matter in a part of the brain linked to decision-making and rule-abiding, researchers have found. — 123rf.com
Worse again, those youngsters who develop a smoking habit tend by the end of their teenage years to have experienced a reduction in grey matter in the part of the brain that controls how pleasure is managed. Grey matter, the tissue that processes information and contains all of the organ’s neurons, sees its growth peak before adolescence, although overall brain development continues into adulthood.
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