Education about the health harms of tobacco have driven nicotine use down across all age groups for several decades. However, since 2016 the rate of adolescent and teenage nicotine use has nearly tripled, most commonly in the form of e-vapes (juuling). Although nicotine vapour May potentially be less harmful to overall health than tobacco smoke, a wealth of research identifies that nicotine exposure during adolescence or teenage years dramatically increases the risk for leader mental health disorders including depression and anxiety, independent of whether the individual continues to use nicotine products later into adulthood. These largely overlooked mental health consequences to later life, as well as potential negative outcomes for multiple generations on offspring of the nicotine user amount to largely unknown consequences of adolescent nicotine exposure.

In this episode, Roger Hudson joins asked to speak about his recent manuscript exploring the presence of persistent mood and anxiety disorders following nicotine exposure throat adolescence, published in the Journal Addiction Biology. Manuscript Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/adb.12891

Produced by Roger Hudson, PhDcDirected by Dr. Mina Nashed, PhDVisual Effects by Dr. Stephen Daniels, PhDAudio Mixing by Dr. Paul Sheppard, PhDDigital Marketing by Bryan Jenkins, PhDc

Theme music: MegaDisko by Navigator Black & the Indighost