Smoking And Beauty
As early as in the forties, smoking was glamourous. Rita Hayworth, the screen goddess was often pictured with a cigarette in hand. She made cigarette smoking look so sexy. She was born in 1918, was a heavy smoker and died at the age of 69 in 1987. She had Alzheimers"s Disease. Here is an article at docguide that links smoking to Alzhiemer"s Disease.
In the movie Grease, in the seventies, when nice girl Sandy (Olivia Newton John) went bad and sexy to get her guy, part of her makeover included dangling a cigarettef from her lips.
Even today, cigarette companies link smoking to sex appeal,athleticism,slimness and independence. Great marketing campaign, but a deadly one.
They are pushing the belief that smoking makes a woman beautiful. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Sure the young and beautiful may smoke, thinking they are immune to the toxins in cigarette smoke. By the way, there are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, many of them are toxic. To make things worse, cigarettes contain nicotine, a highly addictive drug. So when a smoker wants to quit smoking, he or she would find it very hard to stop the habit. Especially when the withdrawal symptoms kick in.
Have you ever seen anyone with cancer?
Did you know that
- 87% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking.
- Cigarette smoking is a major cause of esophagus cancer
- Most of the laryngeal cancer cases are caused by cigarettes and alcohol.
- Smoking increases the risk of bladder cancer.
- Smoking cigarettes, pipes or cigars increases the risk of mouth cancers - oral cavity and pharynx cancers
- In 2004, Surgeon General"s report identified the following cancers to be linked to smoking. stomach, cervix, kidney, and pancreas and acute myeloid leukemia.
I got these stats from About.com Smoking Statistics.
Still think smoking makes a woman sexy?
Smoking And A Woman"s Beauty
Heard about the saying that beauty is skin deep?
This is what smoking does to your skin.
- Nicotine causes the blood vessels in your skin to narrow, reducing the blood supply to your skin. Ever noticed the odd color on the skin of long-term smokers?
- With the oxygen and blood supply to your skin reduced because of smoking, your skin doesn"t get enough nutrients it needs to repair itself or to generate new cells. As a result, your skin ages more quickly.
- Smoking leads to an increase in an enzyme that damages the collagen and elastin. Collagen and elastin support your skin and keep it elastic. As a result, you end up with saggy, wrinkled skin and the gaunt look associated with long-term smokers.
Take a look at a forty-year-old who smokes and one who doesn"t. The difference (sans plastic surgery) is stark. She looks twenty years older than the non-smoker. The smoker is likely to have more lines around the mouth and a grayish pallor. A gift from that cigarette habit. Now how sexy is that?
A woman"s hair is her crowning glory. Guess what smoking does to your hair.
Smoking causes havoc in your body"s production of hormones. It increases the body"s production of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) which causes pattern hair loss in men and women.
That"s not all. Smoking discolors your nails and teeth. The yellowed teeth and smoker"s breath you"d get from cigarettes is a turn off. Your nails, particularly on the hand that holds the cigarette, gets discolored too.
As for smoking to stay slim, no doubt, smokers are thinner than non-smokers, smoking doesn"t give you a sexier figure. In fact, smoking messes with you endocrine system, causing your body to store more fat around your waist than is should. On top of that, the breathlessness that comes with smoking makes it harder for you to exercise. If you want a better figure, you"d want a smaller waist. You don"t want your body to store more fat around your waistline than necessary. Instead of smoking, a healthy lifestyle with a proper diet and daily waist whittling exercise, (made more easier if you don"t smoke) would lead to a healthier body, leaner muscles and a trimmer waist.
If you don"t smoke, don"t start. It"s not worth it. Nicotine is addictive and smoking is a very hard habit to quit. No doubt there are people who can stop smoking just like that, but many find themselves unable to quit. The withdrawal symptoms drive them to smoke the next stick.
If you are already addicted to nicotine, there is still a way out.
Withdrawal symptoms and subsequent can be managed. Click here for the details.
There are chewing gums and other health aids you can take to replace the nicotine in cigarettes and help you quit the habit gradually. Nicorette is one of them. 
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Nicorette Nicotine Gum 2mg, Mint Nicorette Shop the drugstore.com travel store for suggested carry-on personal care and beauty items. Finally, it is all up to you. If you want to quit smoking, you have to make the commitment to stop. Smoking not only affects you. The smoke that your cigarette produces goes up the lungs of the people around you, affecting them as well, increasing their risk of cancer, stroke, heart disease and many of the ailments associated with smoking. If you smoke, whatever smoke-related ailment they get would probably be your gift to them.
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