How Does Smoking Affect Your Face?

[nicnik]

ETA: I forgot to paste the url for the article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-smoking-affects-your-face-2015-9

BuzzFeed teamed up with a makeup artist and Dr. Taylor Hays, Director of the Nicotine Dependence Center at the Mayo Clinic to show three smokers how they will age in the next 20 to 30 years if they keep up their current smoking habits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szbR-8-pgv8#t=25

I've heard this stuff for over 20 years. With all the lies circulated by the tobacco Control Industry, it's not easy to know the truth. They're in the business of misinforming.

Wouldn't those faces have aged like that without smoking? The Mayo Clinic has been an untrustworthy communicator of smoking/smokeless/vaping information, so it's foolish to just take their word for it.

 

[Robino1]

Ya know.... people are amazed that I smoked as long as I have. Most people cannot believe that I am 54.

I do not believe anything the supposed health organizations say

 

[nicnik]

Ya know.... people are amazed that I smoked as long as I have. Most people cannot believe that I am 54.

I do not believe anything the supposed health organizations say

Please, don't let the Mayo Clinic's makeup artists touch your face!

 

[Robino1]

My honest opinion? People usually smoke while drinking alcoholic beverages. I never was much of a drinker.

Alcohol dehydrates. That's what causes hangovers. The brain is dehydrated from booze.

If it does that to the brain, it is doing it to the skin.

My 85 year old MIL is a never smoker. She has yellowed teeth. That happens when people age!

I hate health organizations.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

Slightly OT... Face aging.

Not long ago, I saw a news segment on a truck driver. He'd been at it many years. The left side of his face had 'aged' a lot more than the right side. It was much more wrinkled. I thought that interesting.

A few months after viewing that, I took a good look in the mirror. Yep...happens, and I'm not a truck driver. It is more than noticeable, given a good look. Age: 66.

 

[choochoogranny]

The sun hits the left side of your face when driving in the U.S. I spent a great deal of time outdoors during my childhood and adult years; and, yep, got wrinkles. Both grandmothers who lived very long lives but did NOT spend a lot of time out doors and had very smooth skin until very late. One did, however, smoke until her early 80's and still did not suffer from wrinkles until then; but by then she started have medical issues......with grandpa who was 10 yrs. older.

 

[Painter_]

I did not read the article but if you look at my picture you will see that my face has not changed since the 1980's

Here is a picture from way back then. The only difference is my older picture is more colorful.

 

[nicnik]

I did not read the article but if you look at my picture you will see that my face has not changed since the 1980's

Here is a picture from way back then. The only difference is my older picture is more colorful.

Call the Mayo Clinic for a makeover!

 

[caramel]

Not sure about smoking but since vaping I've got a poker face. Helps with not getting moderated too often.