Study Show Smoking Makes You Look Older

Study Show Smoking Makes You Look Older

Countless studies have shown that smoking has a bad effect on most organs and body parts, but a recent study performed on identical twins shows how it can make you look older than your age.

The study used 79 volunteers from the Twin Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. The basis on which the twins were selected was that one should be smoking by at least 5 years more than the other. The selected twins’ pictures where then submitted to a panel of three plastic surgeons that analyzed them for signs of premature aging.

The analysis of the pictures showed that the smokers’ upper eyelids tend to drop while the lower eyelids sagged. The area around the mouth also had a lot more wrinkles.

Dr. Bahman Guyuron, lead author of the study that was published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal said that smoking causes decreased blood circulation to the skin, the reason behind the extra wrinkles.

The research was conducted to appeal to people’s vanity in an effort to help them stop smoking or to never pick up the habit. The reason behind tanning studies seems to be the same. Protect people from skin cancer by appealing to their vanity.

More so, the point behind the smoking research is to show that quitting, regardless of how long someone smoked for can have an important effect on a person’s health, including their skin health.

Posted by George Daniels on Saturday November 02 2013, 3:26 AM EST. Ref: today. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0