they work for nida -- the national institute on drug abuse. nida wants teens to know that smoking is not a game. >> tobacco is powerful stuff. take a drag and nicotine's absorbed in your lung and moves into your bloodstream, and it's in your brain in 8 seconds. >> but if you continue to smoke, it can change your brain and cause addiction. >> nicotine is one of thousands of chemicals in cigarettes. many of them are poison, linked to trouble with breathing, heart disease, and cancer. >> smoking can cause a long list of adverse health problems. addiction is just one of them, of course. that forces you to keep buying and using this very dangerous product for the rest of your life. >> and listen to this -- new research shows that teens are more at risk for addiction than adults are. >> their brains are still developing. any drug that you put in the brain will have long-term impacts on its trajectory of development. >> that's why scientists want us to avoid not just smoking, but all tobacco products. that includes smokeless tobacco, like plugs and s

as well as the communications researcher with nida. i think he will have some valuable insights for us. [applause] >> thank you. i think it is an interesting convergence of our talks, frank. i will not be redundant. i will try not to be with some of the detail the permission you provided but i will try to provide something more of my perspective as a psychologist to understand some of the why's and how answers. about why or how we should be introduced -- we should be interested in tobacco advertising. we talk about tobacco. to a compass a lot of different things -- to encompass a lot of different things. most of this literature has been done with cigarettes. there's not much in terms of the evidence for what we should be concerned for smokeless. we do not know much about some of these new advertising initiatives. the e-cigarettes, all of a sudden you see tobacco advertisements on tv and you have not seen these things in 40 years. we will have to attend to from occurred -- from a tobacco perspective and a broader perspective. if i were

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