does smoking stunt your growth?

Question

even if you dont inhale

Answer 1

It probably can if you smoke often enough, you always inhale a little bit. And it also depends on where you are developmentally. If you are really young, you have that much more time to grow and your overall health including potential to grow, is affected by the smoking...if you are almost done "cooking"...probably not. There are a lot more reasons to abstain than that, though.

I was a smoker for 20 years. I have lost countless relatives to smoking, including both my parents. Since your question is about growing, I can assume you are young and not smoking long, or considering starting, you need to know that it WILL kill you if something else doesn't get you first...it is a slow sneaky death but inevitable and nasty way to go. You will suffocate from emphysema or get eaten by cancer...and disturbs your whole health. So the best way to avoid any of this is do not start. It is a lot harder to quit than you may think too. Very very addictive.

I am 2 months smoke free. YAY!

Answer 2

Yes, you have heard right - smoking can stunt your growth. The effect is more severe during the early stage, especially before you even get born. Mothers that smoke during their pregnancies have lower birth-weight babies and those babies are more likely to have health problems ad they grow up. Smoking effects your growth but as you’re getting older, those effects are less serious. Smoking effects you only in bad way, so I think you should stay away from it as much as you can. It is prov en that it can effect you even when you’re not smoking but just hanging around people who smoke – you inhale smoke just the same. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

It puts a great strain on your body in terms of bumping up your requirements for many vitamins and minerals so in the sense that it can leave you vitamin/mineral defficient then yes. Plus there may be hormonal effects too from the chemical in the cigarrette smoke, of which there could be as many as 100. Some of these might be hormone-disrupting compounds. Best not to smoke if still growing/not fully mature physically. Best not to smoke whatever - too many health risks in addition to impacting on growth and even sexual maturity in some instances.

Answer 4

We know that smokers have more health problems, more colds, more sore throats and longer sore throats from colds than non-smokers. From observation, it appears that smokers have more deep and more course voices than non-smokers. They certainly do more coughing than non-smokers. It is always good to stop smoking.

I heard the admonition that smoking will stunt your growth from adults when I was just a kid. I believed it then but do not believe it now. Smoking restricts oxygen to the body and it deposits cancer causing agents from the burning tobacco in the lungs.

Answer 5

It certainly can, especially if your diet is deficient in calcium. Nicotine, along with caffeine and many other stimulants increase brain activity which requires more calcium that your parathyroid takes from your bones. If you dont replentish this with additional calcium intake, you most certainly could. Additionally, stimulants also function in the role as appetite surpressants so you may not eat enough good food and not even no it.

Answer 6

the only thing the smoking cause is the lung problems , and every thing else is just made by people to try to tell people about the danger of the smoking

Answer 7

yes it does. and it is a proven fact. if u do not inhale with your mouth u still re breating the same air with your nose, and smoke goes inside u anyway

Answer 8

i dont think it does, maybe just a little bit. my cousin started smoking at 12 and was really short then, but now he is 18 and he is pretty tall.

Answer 9

Only if you smoke fish!