Smoke Or Not Smoke?

 

 

 

Here's something to think about the next time you put a cigarette to your lips: The skin around those lips is going to look older, faster.You're also more likely to get bags under your eyes sooner. And jowls. And more wrinkles around those lips.

Researchers in Ohio studied the physical differences between the faces of nonsmokers and their twins who smoked and found confirmation of a long-held belief: Smoking does indeed age you.

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The photos were divided into two categories.One smoked and the other didn't. The other group was made up of smokers, but in each set, one twin had smoked at least five years longer than the other.

Two doctors and a medical student studied photographs of the twins and assigned scores to their facial features.

In the case of the first group, the judges said the smoking twin appeared older 57% of the time.

"Smoking reduces the collagen formation, results in collagen degradation and reduces the skin circulation," Guyuron said. "Additionally, nicotine reduces the skin thickness. All of these reduce skin elasticity and (cause) premature aging."

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