You know that cigarettes have some serious consequences on your health?many kinds of cancer, cardiovascular disease, infertility, among them?but smoking can also wreak havoc with your appearance too. Here's how.
1: Eye bags. Why? According to a study by Johns Hopkins, that's because smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a full night of sleep. Researchers aren't entirely sure why, but one suspicion is that forgoing nicotine for an extended period results in more tossing and turning?not pretty!
2: Yellow teeth. The nicotine in cigarettes may cause your pearly whites to become, you know, not quite so pearly. Those stains could add up, cost-wise?professional teeth-whitening procedures can cost as much as $1,000.
3: Wrinkles. Smoking slows down the blood supply that keeps your skin tissue looking healthy and hydrated. Experts say that smokers look 1.4 times older than nonsmokers, on average (that means a 30-year-old smoker could look like 42-year-old nonsmoker. Whoa!).
4: Gray, thinning hair. According to research, all of the toxic chemicals in cigarettes can cause damage to the DNA in your hair follicles; that means that smokers may have thinner hair that can go gray earlier than nonsmokers.
5: Warts! And not just any warts?we're talking genital warts, here. Smoking is a risk factor for human papillomavirus, and women who smoke are nearly four times as likely to have genital warts as nonsmokers.
6: Stretch marks. Nicotine damages your skin's connective tissue and fibers, which can result in stripey stretch marks.
7: Extra belly fat. Cigarettes can suppress your appetite, but one study found that smokers actually have more visceral fat than nonsmokers. Visceral fat is the fat that wraps around the internal organs in your midsection, which can help increase the risk of other diseases, including diabetes.
Eeks! Just a few more reasons not to smoke, right?
More about smoking:
* How smoking makes your hangover even worse
* Would these graphic commercials keep you from lighting up?
* Quit smoking before you turn 30, and you'll live an extra decade
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Source: http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2013/07/7-ways-smoking-ruins-your-look.html
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