NICOTINE

Community and Public Policy Factors of Nicotine

Community and Public Policy Factors of Nicotine

Introduction

Nicotine is one of the psychoactive drugs present in the tobacco. The regular usage of this drug leads an individual to get addicted to it. In the United State, the dependence on Nicotine is a common chemical dependence form. Nowadays, this addiction has become common in high school students. The youngsters have started smoking nicotine or tobacco at an early age. Numerous youngsters are regular users of nicotine, and many die eventually because of the nicotine, and tobacco caused disease. This paper discusses the community factors and the public policy factors of nicotine on the high school students.

Discussion

Exposure to nicotine can contribute to sudden death in children by interfering with receptors that control breathing during sleep, the authors of a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Previous epidemiological studies have linked maternal consumption of snuff with sudden death in young but had not established the mechanism of nicotine in these conditions. In the current study, researchers measured the breathing and awakening reactions in normal and mutant mice that lacked a portion of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), a brain protein complex that is directing the nicotine (Dolin, 2001). The researchers examined mice in normal oxygen conditions and under that mimic the common momentary pauses in breathing during sleep. Normal mice were awake more easily in low oxygen conditions as compared to the mutant mice. Injections of nicotine decreased respiratory reactions of normal mice in their sleep but had no effect on mutant mice.

These results indicate that nAChR is critical in the regulation of breathing and wake after sleep. According to the authors of the study, nicotine exposure during pregnancy can continuously activate this receptor and interfere with normal operation. This ...