Teenage smoking may harm brain
A study has revealed that the development of the brain could be badly affected due to smoking in your teens, PTI reports from London.
Brain is particularly vulnerable to the effects of tobacco during adolescence, when it rapidly matures.
Researchers have shown that young smokers, particularly boys, are more likely to suffer hearing problems. Dr Jacobsen, a paediatric psychiatrist at Yale University in the United States, looked at the effect of smoking and brain development in a group of youngsters aged between 14 and 19.