E-cigs allow scientists a peek into a smoker’s brain

Researchers want to know more about the complexities of cigarette-smoking that often includes nicotine addiction and the act of smoking itself. - Reuters

Brain scans with fMRI of e-cigarette smokers puffing away allow scientists to figure out the power of addiction.

The cigarette made it difficult for those who want to study what happens to the brain mid-smoke. With e-cigarettes becoming more popular, British scientists are able to put a smoker into a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and scan people while they puffed.