Title: Risks of Smoking
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #383, May 7, 2008
Time: 1:32
SUGGESTED LEAD: SOME TEENAGERS THINK THE ONLY HARM IN SMOKING CIGARETTES IS LUNG CANCER.  BUT NEW RESEARCH SHOWS SMOKING MAY CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES … TO THE BRAIN.  CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY. 
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SOT: Renee Potter, 15 years old (:00)
“I tried it because I thought it was cool.”

NARR: SHE STARTED SMOKING IN THE FOURTH GRADE. (:02)

SOT: Renee Potter, 15 years old (:05)
“I started smoking cigarettes when I was 10, I started smoking weed and drinking when I was 13, I started doing crystal when I was 14, I started cocaine when I was 15.”

NARR: ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL CENTER ON ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE, TEENS WHO START SMOKING AT A YOUNG AGE ARE THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BINGE DRINK … 13 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO SMOKE MARIJUANA … AND SEVEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO USE COCAINE OR HEROIN.

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS SUGGEST THAT DRUGS … INCLUDING NICOTINE … MAY ALTER THE TEENAGE BRAIN. (:20)

SOT: Frances Leslie, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology (:36)
11:18:19 Our experiment would suggest that just one exposure to nicotine, the active component of tobacco, can produce a long-term change in the behavior of the animal that probably results from a change in the brain. :31

NARR: IN FACT, IN STUDIES ON RATS, NICOTINE EXPOSURE CHANGES BRAIN RECEPTORS, INCREASING THE DESIRE FOR OTHER ADDICTIVE DRUGS. (:08)

SOT: Frances Leslie, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology (:57)
“It’s hard at the moment to know how that translates into human behavior, but I think it’s unquestionable that, um, there will be changes in behavior as a result of early smoking. And it’s quite logical to believe that one of those changes in behavior might be increased drug use … of drugs like cocaine and amphetamine and heroin.”

NARR: NOW, IN REHAB, RENEE TAKES HER ADDICTION ONE DAY AT A TIME. (:04)

SOT: Renee Potter, 15 years old (1:23)
“Because recovery is your whole life if you’re an addict, and you have to do it until the day that you die.”

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