Some of Many Negative Effects of Smoking Cigarettes

First of all free radicals make our skin loose its smoothness and elasticity, than they make wrinkles and brown speckles appear, skin becomes dry and corneous and finally, free radicals damage blood-vessels.

Besides free radicals, during the process of smoking more than four thousand other extremely dangerous and toxic substances are being produced, e.g. tar, carbon dioxide, arsenide, prussic acid and lead.

These toxic substances are responsible for lowering the level of vitamins A, C and E in our body. These vitamins, as we already know, protect our skin from the negative influence of free radical as well as make the skin elastic and stimulate its regeneration.

As a result of smoking, the microcirculation is disturbed, in blood-vessels in particular. You can say that skin cells are being suffocated by smoke which reduces the amount of oxygen in a human body and instead it increases the amount of toxic carbon dioxide. This is why so-called a “tobacco face” person looks tired, has got a grey complexion often with enlarged blood-vessels.

Many of you may think then: “It doesn’t concern me. I don’t smoke a whole packet a day. Just two or three light cigarettes, that’s all.”

However, while you smoke one cigarette you cause the contraction of your skin blood-vessels which lasts up to 90 minutes after you finish smoking. Therefore, a smoker’s blood-vessels can receive one fourth of blood less than a non-smoker’s. As a result, cells of the former reveal oxygen deficiency and the lack of nutritive components in them. In time, such a person’s complexion may loose its pink and healthy colouring and it may start looking pale, grey and poor.

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