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Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products
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HIGHLIGHTSElectronic cigarettes are often promoted as a safer alternative to combusted cigarettes.Human and animal research supports that nicotine contributes to the adverse effects of gestational tobacco exposure on fetal development.Nicotine exposure during adolescence is associated with cognitive deficits.Measures to protect pregnant women and adolescents from nicotine exposure are warranted. ABSTRACT While the health risks associated with adult cigarette smoking have been well described, effects of nicotine exposure during periods of developmental vulnerability are often overlooked. Using MEDLINE and PubMed literature searches, books, reports and expert opinion, a transdisciplinary group of scientists reviewed human and animal research on the health effects of exposure to nicotine during pregnancy and adolescence. A synthesis of this research supports that nicotine contributes critically to adverse effects of gestational tobacco exposure, including reduced pulmonary function, auditory processing defects, impaired infant cardiorespiratory function, and may contribute to cognitive and behavioral deficits in later life. Nicotine exposure during adolescence is associated with deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing, as well as increased impulsivity and anxiety. Finally, recent animal studies suggest that nicotine has a priming effect that increases addiction liability for other drugs. The evidence that nicotine adversely affects fetal and adolescent development is sufficient to warrant public health measures to protect pregnant women, children, and adolescents from nicotine exposure.
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This transdisciplinary expert review synthesizes human and animal evidence that nicotine exposure during pregnancy and adolescence adversely affects development, including pulmonary, cardiorespiratory, auditory, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes. It concludes the evidence is sufficient to warrant public health measures protecting pregnant women, children, and adolescents from nicotine exposure, including from emerging tobacco products.
Key findings
- Prenatal nicotine contributes critically to adverse effects of gestational tobacco exposure, including reduced pulmonary function, auditory processing defects, impaired infant cardiorespiratory function, and possible later cognitive/behavioral deficits. Maternal smoking increases perinatal mortality by 20–30% and SIDS risk 2.4- to 3-fold; maternal smokeless tobacco use is associated with a 1.6- to 2.6-fold increase in stillbirth. In animal models, nicotine is estimated to account for as much as 36%–46% of the overall impact of tobacco smoke on brain circuitry development.
- Adolescent nicotine exposure is associated with deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing, as well as increased impulsivity and anxiety. Adolescents are more vulnerable to addiction, experience dependence at lower nicotine exposure levels than adults, and animal studies suggest nicotine has a priming effect that increases addiction liability for other drugs.
- Prenatal nicotine alone, at levels similar to smokers, causes decreased forced expiratory flow in monkeys and mice; the effect appears mediated by the α7 nAChR because it was lost in α7 nAChR knockout mice. Prenatal nicotine exposure also causes increased collagen, decreased elastin, airway/pulmonary vessel wall thickening, and DNA methylation changes in animal models, with similar findings reported in human offspring of smokers.
- Electronic cigarettes have not been directly assessed for developmental outcomes in pregnant women or adolescents, and there are no published animal developmental studies using nicotine exposure from electronic cigarettes. However, some electronic cigarette products may deliver as much nicotine as conventional cigarettes.
Methods
- In May 2015, scientists from varied disciplines were convened by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the scientific literature on health effects of nicotine exposure during developmental vulnerability.
- The expert review used MEDLINE and PubMed literature searches, books, reports, and expert opinion to summarize and synthesize epidemiological, clinical, and preclinical research on tobacco and nicotine exposure during pregnancy and adolescence.
- Because electronic cigarettes were introduced recently and developmental outcomes have not been directly assessed, the authors drew on studies of other tobacco forms in humans and conventional nicotine exposure in animals, focusing on the central nervous and pulmonary systems.
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- Stated in the paper: electronic cigarette effects on pregnant women and adolescents have not been directly assessed; there are no published animal developmental studies using nicotine exposure from electronic cigarettes; human smokers are exposed to hundreds of other combustion toxicants; observational studies of smokers face residual confounding from socioeconomic, environmental, genetic, and other factors; randomized trials of nicotine exposure in humans would be unethical.
- Stated in the paper: important research gaps remain, including how timing of nicotine exposure during pregnancy affects fetal development and the relative contributions of nicotine versus combustion products to adolescent brain and cognitive outcomes.
- Evident from the text: the review is a narrative expert synthesis rather than a formal systematic review or meta-analysis; many human adolescent cognitive studies are cross-sectional, making causality difficult to determine; some animal findings on reflex development and activity levels are inconsistent.
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“Animal research supports that nicotine adversely affects auditory processing.”
§ Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products > 2. Tobacco use and nicotine exposure during pregnancy > 2.5 Auditory processing
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The Results report that nicotine exposure during the second postnatal week altered synaptic development in rat auditory cortex. The Abstract says this disruption may lead to impaired auditory cortex function, supporting the citing sentence’s broad, hedged claim about adverse effects on auditory processing. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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The Discussion states that gestational nicotine exposure is detrimental to auditory processing under controlled experimental conditions. The study specifically concerns prenatal nicotine exposure in rats and altered auditory sensorimotor gating in their offspring. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Maternal smoking during pregnancy has adverse effects outside the central nervous system, most notably on lung development, causing lifelong decreases in pulmonary function.”
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“Maternal smoking and smokeless tobacco use during pregnancy are associated with increased risk of neonatal apnea, while maternal smoking is also associated with a decreased arousal response.”
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“A synthesis of this research supports that nicotine contributes critically to adverse effects of gestational tobacco exposure”
§ Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products > Abstract
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- Rests on an assumption: Developmental effects of nicotine delivered by electronic cigarettes are similar to those of conventional nicotine or tobacco.
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“Nicotine exposure during adolescence is associated with deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing, as well as increased impulsivity and anxiety.”
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“may contribute to cognitive and behavioral deficits in later life”
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“Nicotine exposure during adolescence is associated with deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing, as well as increased impulsivity and anxiety.”
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“there are no published studies of developmental outcomes using animal models nicotine exposure from electronic cigarettes.”
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“but no clear association with fetal growth restriction.”
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“Nicotine exposure during adolescence is associated with deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing, as well as increased impulsivity and anxiety.”
§ Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products > Abstract
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“A number of studies have examined maternal smoking and infant auditory processing.”
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“Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy is causally associated with a number of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including ectopic pregnancy, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, placental abruption, and orofacial cleft defects.”
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“These studies have found associations with preterm birth, stillbirth, and orofacial cleft defects”
§ Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products > 2. Tobacco use and nicotine exposure during pregnancy > 2.1 Pregnancy outcomes
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“Nicotine crosses the placenta(45) and specifically binds to nAChRs in the fetal brain.(46, 47)”
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“found greater rates of maladaptive response to the non-stress test (a clinical index of fetal well-being)(96), including reduced heart rate variability, increased mouth and self-touch movements, and impaired recognition of maternal voice in fetuses of smokers compared with those of nonsmokers.”
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“Imaging studies found that fetuses exposed to maternal smoking had decreased transcerebellar and lateral ventricle diameter/width (ultrasound) and decreased overall brain volume (MRI) compared with unexposed fetuses”
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“In developing rats exposed prenatally to nicotine at plasma levels comparable to those in human active smokers, standard biomarkers of cell injury indicate apoptosis, reductions in the numbers of neuronal cells, truncation of axonogenesis, and deficient synaptogenesis.”
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“Imaging studies of offspring in later life also found differences in the brains of exposed offspring, including reduced cerebral cortical gray matter, reduced subcortical gray matter volumes in the amygdala, thalamus, and pallidum, and reduced volume in the corpus callosum.”
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“In a study of 6- to 8-year-old children prenatally exposed to maternal smoking, the authors found reduced brain volume, smaller cortical gray and white matter volumes, and thinning of the superior frontal, superior parietal, lateral occipital, and precentral cortices compared with age- and gender-matched unexposed children.”
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“Prenatal nicotine exposure leads to severe reduction or loss of the adrenomedullary component, along with a reduced cardiac response to adrenergic stimulation, resulting in brain injury or death during a hypoxic episode that would ordinarily not be harmful.”
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“there is evidence that prenatal nicotine exposure damages brainstem circuits that are responsible for mounting appropriate respiratory responses to neonatal hypoxia, which could contribute to additional SIDS risk.”
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“Healthy newborn infants of non-smoking mothers discriminated among a greater number of syllables whereas healthy newborns of smokers began the discrimination process at least 150 msec later and differentiated fewer stimuli.”
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“studies of the immediate neonatal period (postnatal days 1-5) revealed increased signs of abstinence/withdrawal, hypertonicity, irritability, and excitability in tobacco-exposed neonates, with a clear dose-response relationship to nicotine exposure.”
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- Not checked yetcites [122] Stroud LR Paster RL Goodwin MS Shenassa E Buka S Niaura R Maternal smoking during pregnancy and neonatal behavior: A large-scale community study Pediatrics 2009 123 5 e842 8 19403478 PMC2872509 source
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“rodent studies suggest that prenatal nicotine exposure delays maturation of reflexes, including negative geotaxis and surface righting (measures of limb coordination and locomotor development), as well as causing long-lasting alterations in filtering auditory information.”
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- Not checked yetcites [146] Lacy RT Mactutus CF Harrod SB Prenatal iv nicotine exposure produces a sex difference in sensorimotor gating of the auditory startle reflex in adult rats Int J Dev Neurosci 2011 29 2 153 61 21145386 PMC3312379 source
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“These effects appear to be dose dependent and sensitive to factors such as sex and timing of exposure.”
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“Exposure of rats to nicotine in the second postnatal week, corresponding to the third trimester of human fetal brain development,(147) disrupted the development of glutamate synapses in the auditory cortex, which has been associated with long-term deficits in auditory processing and learning.”
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“Combined gestational/neonatal exposure is associated with increased anxiety levels, poor adaptation in a new environment, and decreased novelty-seeking.”
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- Not checked yetcites [181] Vaglenova J Birru S Pandiella NM Breese CR An assessment of the long-term developmental and behavioral teratogenicity of prenatal nicotine exposure Behav Brain Res 2004 150 1-2 159 70 15033289 source
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“Associations have also been described between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring internalizing behaviors (anxiety and depression), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and impairments in learning and memory, but are less consistent than for externalizing behaviors.”
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- Not checked yetcites [150] D’Onofrio BM Van Hulle CA Waldman ID Rodgers JL Harden KP Rathouz PJ Smoking during pregnancy and offspring externalizing problems: An exploration of genetic and environmental confounds Dev Psychopathol 2008 20 1 139 64 18211732 PMC3737574
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“At birth, and prior to any significant postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke, infants born to smokers show decreased pulmonary function tests, with decreased respiratory flows and respiratory compliance, and altered tidal breathing patterns.”
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“Adolescent rodents self-administer nicotine more than adults and adolescent exposure leads to increased self-administration of nicotine (244) and other drugs in adulthood.(245)”
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- Not checked yetcites [244] Adriani W Spijker S Deroche-Gamonet V Laviola G Le Moal M Smit AB Evidence for enhanced neurobehavioral vulnerability to nicotine during periadolescence in rats The J Neurosci 2003 6 1 23 11 4712 6 PMC6740776 12805310
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“Treatment of pregnant rhesus monkeys with nicotine causes marked increases of levels of α7 nAChR in fibroblasts surrounding airways and blood vessels in the fetal monkey lung, and increases in collagen in a similar distribution.”
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- Not checked yetcites [208] Sekhon HS Jia Y Raab R Kuryatov A Pankow JF Whitsett JA Prenatal nicotine increases pulmonary alpha7 nicotinic receptor expression and alters fetal lung development in monkeys J Clin Invest 1999 103 5 637 47 10074480 PMC408124 source
- Not checked yetcites [209] Sekhon HS Keller JA Proskocil BJ Martin EL Spindel ER Maternal nicotine exposure upregulates collagen gene expression in fetal monkey lung. Association with alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2002 26 1 31 41 11751201 source
- Not checked yetcites [210] Sekhon HS Proskocil BJ Clark JA Spindel ER Prenatal nicotine exposure increases connective tissue expression in foetal monkey pulmonary vessels Eur Respir J 2004 23 6 906 15 15219006 source
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“Prenatal nicotine exposure leads to thickening of walls surrounding airways and pulmonary vessels in animal models,(209, 210) a finding that has also been reported in the human offspring of smokers,(211, 212) along with similar increases in connective tissue and α7 expression.”
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- Not checked yetcites [209] Sekhon HS Keller JA Proskocil BJ Martin EL Spindel ER Maternal nicotine exposure upregulates collagen gene expression in fetal monkey lung. Association with alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2002 26 1 31 41 11751201 source
- Not checked yetcites [210] Sekhon HS Proskocil BJ Clark JA Spindel ER Prenatal nicotine exposure increases connective tissue expression in foetal monkey pulmonary vessels Eur Respir J 2004 23 6 906 15 15219006 source
- Not checked yetcites [211] Elliot J Vullermin P Robinson P Maternal cigarette smoking is associated with increased inner airway wall thickness in children who die from sudden infant death syndrome Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998 158 3 802 6 9731008 source
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“These changes lead to increased risk in childhood of wheezing, hospitalization for respiratory infections, and asthma.”
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- Not checked yetcites [201] Stoddard JJ Gray B Maternal smoking and medical expenditures for childhood respiratory illness Am J Public Health 1997 87 2 205 9 9103098 PMC1380795
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“A primary mediator of this effect appears to be the α7 nAChR, as the effect of nicotine was lost in α7 nAChR knockout mice.”
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- Not checked yetcites [205] Wongtrakool C Wang N Hyde DM Roman J Spindel ER Prenatal nicotine exposure alters lung function and airway geometry through alpha7 nicotinic receptors Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2012 5 46 5 695 702 22246862 PMC3359906
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“adult smokers show more rapid cognitive decline with age than nonsmokers,(264-268) although it is unclear whether the underlying mechanisms involve nicotine, products of combustion, or both.(15)”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The health consequences of smoking: 50 years of progress A report of the Surgeon General U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health 2014
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“male smokers initiated smoking at an earlier age than females and were more impaired during tests of selective and divided attention than female smokers and nonsmokers.”
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- Not checked yetcites [269] Jacobsen LK Krystal JH Mencl WE Westerveld M Frost SJ Pugh KR Effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on cognition in adolescent tobacco smokers Biol Psychiatry 2005 57 1 56 66 15607301
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“These findings suggest that adolescent smokers display a hypo-responsivity to the anticipation of non-drug reward (i.e., financial reward) relative to non-smokers, and this hypo-responsivity becomes more severe with increased smoking.”
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“In a study of young adults age 18-35 years, the authors found prefrontal attentional network activity was reduced in smokers compared with non-smokers using fMRI, and the degree of diminished attentional network activity was correlated with the number of years participants had smoked.”
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“adult rats exposed to nicotine during adolescence had deficits in attention and displayed increased impulsivity.”
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- Not checked yetcites [292] Counotte DS Goriounova NA Li KW Loos M van der Schors RC Schetters D Lasting synaptic changes underlie attention deficits caused by nicotine exposure during adolescence Nat Neurosci 2011 14 4 417 9 21336271 source
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“In the U.S. population, the use of tobacco often precedes the use of other drugs including marijuana, which in turn generally precedes the use of cocaine and other illicit substances for those who go on to use other drugs.”
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- Not checked yetcites [298] Viveros MP Marco EM File SE Nicotine and cannabinoids: Parallels, contrasts and interactions Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2006 30 8 1161 81 17049986
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“Nicotine pretreatment in mice and rats enhances the subsequent response to cocaine, but the effect is unidirectional, as the reverse order (cocaine followed by nicotine) does not result in enhancement of the response to nicotine.”
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- Not checked yetcites [301] Kandel DB Kandel ER A molecular basis for nicotine as a gateway drug The New England journal of medicine 2014 11 20 371 21 2038 9 25409384
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“adolescent nicotine exposure increased anxiety in adult rats,(296) decreased the sensitivity to natural rewards, and fostered depression-like behaviors.(295)”
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- Not checked yetcites [295] Ribeiro-Carvalho A Lima CS Nunes-Freitas AL Filgueiras CC Manhaes AC Abreu-Villaca Y Exposure to nicotine and ethanol in adolescent mice: Effects on depressive-like behavior during exposure and withdrawal Behav Brain Res 2011 221 1 282 9 21402108
- Not checked yetcites [296] Smith LN McDonald CG Bergstrom HC Brielmaier JM Eppolito AK Wheeler TL Long-term changes in fear conditioning and anxiety-like behavior following nicotine exposure in adult versus adolescent rats Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2006 85 1 91 7 16919320
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“Studies of human adolescent smokers also find deficits in working memory, attention, and auditory processing,”
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“and adolescent nicotine exposure in rodents is associated with deficits in learning and in attention, as well as in increased impulsivity and anxiety.”
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“Finally, nicotine withdrawal in adolescent tobacco users can cause impairments in cognition and has adverse effects on mood and attention.(269-271)”
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- Not checked yetcites [269] Jacobsen LK Krystal JH Mencl WE Westerveld M Frost SJ Pugh KR Effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on cognition in adolescent tobacco smokers Biol Psychiatry 2005 57 1 56 66 15607301 source
- Not checked yetcites [270] Jacobsen LK Mencl WE Constable RT Westerveld M Pugh KR Impact of smoking abstinence on working memory neurocircuitry in adolescent daily tobacco smokers Psychopharmacology 2007 193 4 557 66 17505817 source
- Not checked yetcites [271] Fried PA Watkinson B Gray R Neurocognitive consequences of cigarette smoking in young adults--a comparison with pre-drug performance Neurotoxicol Teratol 2006 28 4 517 25 16904287 source
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“Despite the strength of data in support of adverse effects of nicotine exposure during pregnancy and adolescence, important research gaps remain that, if addressed, could better characterize these effects.”
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- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
The paper relies on this without support.
Developmental effects of nicotine delivered by electronic cigarettes are similar to those of conventional nicotine or tobacco.
“Electronic cigarettes were introduced to markets relatively recently, and their effects on health outcomes in pregnant women and adolescents have not been directly assessed.”
“Therefore, the authors draw on studies of other forms of tobacco exposure (cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) in humans and conventional nicotine exposure in animals.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Many clinicians and scientists have historically viewed nicotine alone as low risk, particularly for established smokers.
“Historically, many clinicians and scientists have considered exposure to nicotine alone to be low risk, especially for established smokers.”
The paper relies on this without support.
It would be unethical to run randomized human trials that could establish nicotine's developmental effects.
“Randomized trials of nicotine exposure in humans that could determine effects of nicotine on development are unethical, so researchers rely on observational studies of human smokers.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Smokers inhale many other toxic combustion products besides nicotine, including carbon monoxide, acetaldehyde, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
“Human smokers, however, are exposed not only to nicotine, but to hundreds of other toxic components generated by combustion, such as carbon monoxide, acetaldehyde, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Product safety regulation commonly relies on animal data.
“and regulatory decisions on product safety are routinely made using animal data.”
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“early identification of drug use in an adolescent might be an indicator of an underlying emerging psychiatric disorder, and its treatment might prevent a more severe presentation 143,144 .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- England, L. J., Aagaard, K., Bloch, M., Conway, K., Cosgrove, K., Grana, R., Gould, T. J., Hatsukami, D., Jensen, F., Kandel, D., Lanphear, B., Leslie, F., Pauly, J. R., Neiderhiser, J., Rubinstein, M., Slotkin, T. A., Spindel, E., Stroud, L., & Wakschlag, L.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Oregon National Primate Research Center (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- England, Lucinda J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-01
- Volume
- 72
- Pages
- 176-189
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5965681
- OpenAlex
- W2553751430
- Semantic Scholar
- 7717907214b027a469c3a68f7391414afc46b754
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 332
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 10
- FWCI
- 2.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Cancer Institute
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
- Keywords
- nicotine, developmental toxicity, adolescent nicotine exposure, fetal development, lung function, auditory processing, cardiopulmonary function, cognitive impairment, impulsivity, anxiety, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Female, Fetus, Humans, Nicotine, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Smoking, Tobacco Products, Nicotiana
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