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7 Ways In Which Smoking Ruins Your Looks

By Manash Kashyap

Are you stressed out and want to light a cigarette? We suggest you have a dark chocolate instead; because smoking ruins your look. In India, at least there have been concerted efforts over the past decade by statutory agencies to highlight the adverse effects of smoking, especially how smoking ruins your look.

Even the leading tobacco companies have started diversifying into other businesses but the sales of cigarettes have continued to grow. The chain smokers in the movie industries need to know that smoking ruins their skin, the same skin which is an asset to them.

7 Ways In Which Smoking Ruins Your Looks

And it is actually not about your looks, its about the whole you. It's true that smoking ruins your look but do you know that a smoking affects you much deeper inside? Your nicotine-laden smoke actually goes to the extent of affecting your DNA and not only does smoking ruins your look, but it affects your unborn baby as well!

CHAIN SMOKER? CALCULATE THE DAYS LEFT IN YOUR LIFE!

We highlight here a few visible ways in which smoking ruins your looks:

Ugly Eye Bags: If bags under you eyes were part of beauty secrets, those models would have smoked half the nights! But they are not. The nicotine you inhale deprives you from sleep, giving you those ugly eye bags!

Yellow stained teeth: Going for a date? And you are 30? No, we aren’t saying you are old to date but do you smoke? You probably need to get your teeth bleached first. Because, smoking ruins your looks by imparting a yellow tint to your teeth. And, continued smoking may leave you toothless!

Early scalp and accelerated greying: If looking like grandpa of 80 is your ambition when you are just in 20s, we suggest you start smoking today! Yes smoking ruins your looks by making your lovely curls fall and become grey and very soon you may be left with a fashionable wig!

Skin dry and ugly: Continued smoking may leave your skin high and dry. Smoking ruins skin by depriving it of the much-needed moisture. Without moisture, the skin loses its glow and thus ruins your looks.

Rubber tyres on your waist: Smoking promotes belly fat. Smoking suppresses your diet while promoting the fat deposition around your tummy, making you shudder every time you tuck in your shirt or take a dip in the local swimming pool!

Goodbye to wrinkle-free skin: Wrinkles on your skin suggests ageing due to lesser availability of nutrients. Smoking ruins skin by drying up the supply of oxygen and nutrients-rich blood to the blood vessels in your skin. Hence, the next time you light up think about the starving skin!

Scaly skin: If the above reasons weren’t enough for you to quit smoking, here is another one! Smoking ruins skin by increasing the cases of scaly skin or Psoriasis as doctors call it. This is a condition of proliferated growth of the skin causing scales on the skin surface. This definitely ruins your looks and makes you look ugly.

Story first published: Friday, April 18, 2014, 19:32 [IST]
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