Does cigarette smoking make you a better student? is the link between nicotine and improvement in memory/conc. unclear? would this be offset by psycholog. problems caused by smoking/using nicotine?

I don't know if: There is any study to prove that cigarette smoking or nicotine really does improve memory. Then again, such a study would be unethical to do, knowing that smoking is a detriment to health and to specifically study it and let healthy people to smoke (you need smoking naive people for the study) and make them unhealthy to see a good effect of a bad chemical is ethically unacceptable for studies.

Addictive;Dangerous: Even though nicotine has some beneficial effect on hypothalamus and is supposed to increase your concenteration and memory due to release of acetylcholine.It also enhance alertness but it does not make you a better student because it is considered a drug and causes addiction and dependence and can be dangerous.As we know smoking causes so many bad ill effects like pulmonary, cardiovascular, cancer-.

Not clear: Nicotine and related compounds have been shown to cause l learning, mood and anxiety disorders in exposed fetus and developing children and young adults. There may be improvement in memory and attention in dementia and the effects of hypothyroidism. So if you have a learning growing brain it will probably mess you up and certainly not make you a better student. Unless you're demented, forget it.