Study confirms that cigarettes will give you ugly ‘smoker’s face’
By Hannah Sparks, New York Post, November 1, 2019
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Smoking cigarettes just keeps getting uglier and uglier.
A new report has confirmed that there’s science behind the term, “Smoker’s Face,” coined in the 1980s for how cigarette habits change one’s appearance. Smokers who looked older than their age had two genetic variants that non-smokers didn’t have, according to the findings published in PLOS Genetics.
And it gets uglier: Tobacco use in movies rated PG-13 increased 120 percent between 2010 and 2018 and jumped 57 percent in all films, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts at the US Surgeon General’s Office have long warned that Hollywood’s depictions of tobacco as a “social norm” will make impressionable PG-13 audiences “more likely to smoke.”
As the hidden dangers of e-cigarette and vape use have slowly been revealed, many young people have said that they are now turning back to tobacco cigarettes to feed their nicotine addiction. The CDC also added that teen tobacco use has been climbing since 2018 as vaping has grown in popularity.
According to SmokeFree.gov, smoking can lead to several unattractive outcomes.
Smoking cigarettes leads to yellowing of the teeth, more cavities and an increased risk of losing your teeth at a young age; it makes your skin dry, sallow and more wrinkled due to a loss of elasticity caused by smoke; you may also develop tell-tale wrinkles around your mouth caused by puckering. Depending on when you start smoking, these symptoms can set in during your early 30s.
And, just to restate what all should know by now, the CDC reminds us that tobacco use is the leading culprit behind preventable death in the United States. Common fatal illnesses caused by smoking and secondhand smoke include lung cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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