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What Happens When You Start Young?

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Scientific studies have suggest that those who start smoking in their formative years have more difficulty quitting. Why? Because during one's younger years, areas involved in cognition and your brain's reward system are fine tuned. And if your brain is fine tuned around addiction to cigarettes, then teenage smokers are more likely to become seriously hooked than those who start smoking at a later age. Indeed, studies on rats have suggested that, when rats start young, they need twice as much nicotine as adult rats to satiate the need. Therefore, it is even more important that teenagers not smoke, because it's that much more difficult to quit later in life.



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