Smoking and your appearance
The ‘ugly’ facts about smoking and your looks
It’s not just your internal organs that are damaged by smoking – your looks can also suffer.
- Smoking dries the skin and causes wrinkles.
- People who smoke often have a grayish wasted appearance.
- Smoking can make you look 10–20 years older.
If you want to see for yourself how smoking can cause premature ageing, look at the images that show how a person would age if they were a non-smoker and smoker.
Your body shape and smoking
Don’t be fooled into thinking smoking is good for your figure, it makes you store fat around your waist rather than hips making you look less curvy.
That’s not all!
Don’t forget smoking also:
- makes your clothes smell
- makes you hair smell
- stains your fingers
- stains your teeth
- can lead to tooth loss
- gives you bad breath