The response of the human brain determines if someone could become addicted to smoking after taking his or her first drag on a cigarette. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts based their findings over 12,000 interviews with 1246 high school students over four years.
Which people would try smoking was determined with personality factor, like stress for example, but the brain’s reaction to the nicotine was the most important. One-third of 217 teenagers that were questioned said they felt relaxed after smoking a cigarette for the first time. Two-third of them became addicted. The outcome of the research is presented on the same day of legislation making it illegal for anyone less than 18 years to buy tobacco in England, Scotland and Wales.
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