MedPage Today (8/10, Lopilato) reports, “Children who started using tobacco by age 10 had significantly inferior cognitive performance and smaller brain structures after a 2-year follow-up period, a cohort studyreported.” Children “reporting ever using tobacco products had significantly lower scores in the Picture Vocabulary Test of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery both at baseline and at 2-year follow-up compared with never-users,” and “structural MRI revealed that whole-brain measures in cortical areas were significantly lower among ever-users at baseline, whereas cortical volumes were reduced in ever-users at baseline and at 2 years…reported” researchers in JAMA Network Open.
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