ive heard smoking makes you paler and "dead looking"
is this true or false??
2007-09-15 05:33:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
I'm leaning towards "True" because smoking is just bad for your whole body. It actually makes a lot of sense. Interesting question. You deserve a star for that one! :)
2007-09-15 05:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by LadyLynn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure about making you paler but it does cause your skin to wrinkle more and it yellows your finger nails. There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them.
A smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.
Mothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil.
Children who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves.
I have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
2007-09-18 21:52:17 · answer #2 · answered by lovelysweetmaiden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stands to reason that it could. Think about it: your lungs are filling with pollutants batlling for oxygen space -- and winning. Lots of things can make one paler, though. Poor diet can make a person paler, and smoking, I have read, interferes with the nutrients one's body can absorb from the food one eats, so I'd say it's entirely possible smoking makes a person paler.
Hope this helps.
2007-09-15 05:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by holdthemayo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. It also does other things to the skin. I have smoked for 45 years and it has caused other skin problems as well. Wrinkles around the mouth and droopy eyelids.
2007-09-15 05:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at some of the famous people that smoke, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan. They don't look pale to me.
2007-09-18 02:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Steve R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it would not. childrens merely say stupid issues. the only element that makes somebody have easy pores and skin is the quantity of pigment of their pores and skin. with any luck you would be grown up sufficient to no longer %. on the toddler too.
2017-01-02 05:56:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people say it is but it not but people like 2 somke and it not cool
2007-09-15 05:41:04 · answer #7 · answered by bossyeve williams 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋