Smoking? It’s Time To Quit!
Someone you know, perhaps even you, need to quit smoking. You understand the dangers and realize there is not one cell in your body that is unaffected by cigarettes and/or snuff. You even understand that no one in your immediate vicinity is safe from the fumes of your cigarettes or the fumes you exhale.
Smoking Makes You Wrinkly and Aged
Leaving aside the anti social nature of smoking, the selfishness and the fact that other people's health can be adversely affected, smoking also has an interesting (and undesirable) effect on the smokers themselves. It causes wrinkles and premature ageing. Will this fact lead to less people lighting up?
Smoking has many negative effects on the body, as many know. But it also can make one wrinkle faster than normal- and not just facial wrinkles. A recent study conducted on the subject proved that smoking does in fact, cause smokers to have more fine wrinkles than non-smokers.
Interestingly, the scientists found the smoking wrinkles the entire body- not just the face. In the study, smokers had significantly much more ‘fine’ wrinkles than non-smokers. Even with protection from the sun, smokers managed to show more wrinkles, blocking out possibility of a wronged experiment.
The results found were very conclusive: how often one smokes, and how many packs per day, both affect skin damage. Not concerned with wrinkles? Smoking has also shown to turn one’s skin color to a yellow tint, not exactly desirable. Both of these things were known previously, but researchers wanted to confirm the last study, and to test whether or not covered parts of the body were affected- they were.
But how does smoking do this? It is suspected that smoking restricts blood vessels leading to the skin, therefore reducing blood supply, and essentially ageing your skin faster. Add it to the list of reasons to quit smoking, or more importantly- reasons to never start.