Smoking And Hearing Problems
A teenager who smokes may find it harder to understand what other people are saying, according to an article published in The New Scientist. The risk is also there if a teenager’s mother smoked while she was pregnant with him/her. Leslie Jacobsen of Yale University School of Medicine and team used diffusion tensor imaging. This measures how water diffuses through brain tissue. They studied 33 teenagers - all their mothers had smoked during pregnancy. [click link for full article]
More: continued here