Article #10

"Twins study shows smoking ages your face faster"
By: Steve Almasy
Source: CNN

How could the thought of harming one's own body not frighten one? Yet more and more people begin to smoke cigarettes everyday. Smoking is certainly non-benefinal to the human body. It can cause lung diseases or cancer. Smoking can lead a person to a long, painful, and difficult demise. Why continue? Study shows that a long-term smoker can age one's face faster. An ordinary and consistent smoker can be distinguished from one who does not smoke at all or one who occasionally smokes. Two doctors and a medical student conducted this study using twins. Researchers divided the pictures into two categories: one being a twin who smoked and the other did not, and a separate category being one twin smoked at least five years longer than the other. The first category proved that fifty-seven percent of the smoking twin appeared older than the non-smoker twin. Afterwards, experimenters took a look at the second group, which verified that twin who smoked five years longer resembled aged sixty-three percent of the time. To be more accurate the study also considered other factors of aging such as, alcohol consumption, stress, and sunscreen use. Smoking definitely does transform the way someone looks immensely. Why take the risk? Lessen the chances of receiving those diseases and physical differences by staying away from cigarettes.