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Cigarette use among this group had been steadily falling for years, but that trend has reversed itself since the introduction of vaping products that contain nicotine

You also feel energetic as nicotine from smoking cigarettes activates the key part of your brain that releases dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure and reward

Smoking alters a protein called elastin (which forms elastic connective tissues) and hardens elastic fibres in the arteries

Finally, in the judgment of the task force, there are uncertain public health and societal impacts of normalizing e-cigarettes as a population approach to cessation

A report for the Department of Health in March this year concluded that plain packaging reduced smoking initiation among young people, increased the numbers who would quit and helped denormalise tobacco use