Pre-Mature Ageing

Although looking older gets people style points and makes them look more mature for that special someone, smoking tobacco causes one to look like a real life scarecrow.  The results of continuous smoking will lead to features such as quitters nails, smokers comedones, smokers face, and smokers melanosis. A study has shown that thirty-five plus years of smoking packs of cigarettes will cause premature ageing. Not does smoking tobacco causes internal damages to ones organs, it also causes obvious external damages that make the smoker look hideous.

The toxins in smoking tobacco causes a decrease in moisture in the stratum corneum, which are the cause for more facial wrinkles. Smoking tobacco affects the MMP gene family which are primary mediators of connective-tissue damage in skin. Also the changes that in the macro-molecular metabolism of the dermis are major factors leading to skin ageing.

Smoking tobacco can have many objective signs seen on the abuser. The nails of smokers, which is also called “quitter’s nails”, show a yellow discoloration. Some common features in smokers face include: lines or wrinkles on the face radiating at right angles from the upper and lower lips or corners of the eyes, and deep lines on the cheeks or numerous shallow lines on the cheeks and lower jaw. Smoker’s comedones is the result of wrinkles on the forehead. Smoker’s melanosis is black or brown pigmentation on the smokers gums.

Since these findings can be seen by the naked eye, people can explain to others why smoking is not only detrimental to their health but also their beauty. Smoking causes one to look like they are suffering with a serious case of Ebola and it makes them less tolerable to society. People can always tell if someone is on something by the objective side effects, therefore smoking will not only ruin people’s impression of you, it will hurt your reputation and your goals to advance yourself.  

ABSTRACT

Akimichi Morita, Tobacco smoke causes premature skin aging, Journal of Dermatological Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 169-175, ISSN 0923-1811,