Smoking Cigarettes Strongly Affects Aging Appearance

Besides many known health risk implications of smoking there is also the aging factor.

The study on identical twins showed that each 10 year of smoking translated to 2 years of additional perceived aging.

From the study Factors contributing to the facial aging of identical twins

One of the strongest associations with perceived age was whether a person smoked: every 10 years of smoking was associated with a 2-year older appearance.

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