The Effects of Smoking on Your Appearance

Though you will never see what smoking does to your lungs, now you can see what it will do to your face.  Using age progression software, The American Lung Association shows some teenage smokers how they will look after a lifetime of smoking cigarettes – and the images are disturbing!

What can you expect to look like if you smoke year after year?  Here are a few of the symptoms of a condition called "smoker’s face":

  • Deep wrinkles around the eyes and mouth (many times worse than the natural wrinkles that your non-smoking friends will have)
  • Very dry, flaky skin – and chapped lips.
  • Red, gray or yellow cast to skin, making your general appearance to have an overall unhealthy look.
  • Saggy, puffy skin, since smoke cuts the collagen production of your skin – collagen is produced by your skin and is linked to young, clear looking skin.
  • Yellow stained teeth – but smoking has also been linked to gum disease and tooth loss.
  • Yellow stained fingernails

 

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About Dan Buglio

Dan is the founder and President of My-Air-Purifier.com and is a certified indoor air quality professional by the IIAQC.
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3 Responses to The Effects of Smoking on Your Appearance

  1. Willard Van Orman Quine says:

    Fake!

  2. Dan Buglio says:

    Of course it is fake. It’s a simulation. But I know from my own personal experience. I can spot a smoker just by the way they look once they hit a certain age. Around their lips, facial wrinkles, etc. Smokers just don’t look as healthy.

  3. Hannah says:

    I truthfully think that smoking is disgusting. I used to think about doing it but then i saw what would happen and now it’s really gross. My friend smokes and I have told them to quit before and they say that it’s not gonna happen.