{"id":434246,"date":"2026-08-16T02:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:52:29","slug":"teens-face-health-risks-as-smoking-and-vaping-gain-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434246\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens face health risks as smoking and vaping gain popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Smoking is becoming more popular with some younger generations, and health experts are raising concern.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say nicotine can have a major impact on developing brains and lungs, making risks even greater for young people.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Hospital Pulmonologist Dr. Rajan Goyal joined ARC Bakersfield to share how smoking can cause harm to teens.<\/p>\n<p>Goyal says nicotine can rewire connections in the brain and hijack reward systems.<\/p>\n<p>He says this can lead to attention deficits and poor impulse control.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Smoking is becoming more popular with some younger generations, and health experts are raising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-434246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}