Smoking And Dry Skin
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What about smoking? I can still have great skin as a smoker, right?
I think you know the answer to that one. Sure, you can have okay skin or even nice skin as a smoker, but it’ll never be as gorgeous as it could if you just dropped the cigarettes. If you consider all of the contortions your poor facial muscles go through as a result of smoking, you’d realize immediately the effects it can have on your skin before you even consider the chemical results.
The first is, of course, the pucker of your mouth on the tip of the cigarette. Repeating that pursed pose hundreds of times throughout the day helps ingrain it into your facial muscles, and it’s the reason so many long-time smokers have creases and wrinkles around the lip area. Now what about smoke breaks with a herd of fellow puffers? Or smoky bars? You squint, cough, and frown, right? Each of those takes a toll on your face.
Besides those and the obvious lip, mouth, throat, and lung cancer risks (more coughing and frowning), smoking also constricts your blood vessels. If it hasn’t yet sunken in that reduced blood flow is bad for the skin, you need to re-read this entire section. The tar in the cigarettes can stain your fingers, teeth, and even your facial skin with a nasty yellow tinge, and even the reduced lung capacity can affect your skin due to oxygen deficiencies. If you really want gorgeous skin, you’ll put down the cigarettes and pick up some carrot sticks instead.
