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Smoking seriously affects your health, but it also affects your appearance by aging the skin, damaging the hair and causing bad breath (halitosis). Tobacco has a drying affect on the skin’s surface and restricts the blood vessels, depleting the skin of oxygen and essential nutrients needed for healthy skin.
Skin damaged by smoke has a greyish, wasted appearance. Smoking may reduce the body’s store of Vitamin A, which protects against some skin-damaging agents produced by smoking . Recent research suggests that smoking may increase production of an enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin . Collagen is what makes skin elastic. Smoking increases wrinkles, leading to ‘crow’s feet’ around the eyes and the ‘cat’s bum’ wrinkles around the mouth. Certain chemicals in smoke break down hair cells which can potentially lead to baldness and premature grey hair.
More information can be found via the following links:
http://www.quit.org.uk/guides/womenandsmoking.php
http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_115.pdf
Skin damaged by smoke has a greyish, wasted appearance. Smoking may reduce the body’s store of Vitamin A, which protects against some skin-damaging agents produced by smoking . Recent research suggests that smoking may increase production of an enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin . Collagen is what makes skin elastic. Smoking increases wrinkles, leading to ‘crow’s feet’ around the eyes and the ‘cat’s bum’ wrinkles around the mouth. Certain chemicals in smoke break down hair cells which can potentially lead to baldness and premature grey hair.
More information can be found via the following links:
http://www.quit.org.uk/guides/womenandsmoking.php
http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_115.pdf
Oliver Sabine
