Smoking and Your Skin's Health
What do cigarettes do to your looks if you're a smoker? You're about to find out! Certainly everyone knows all of the medical risks of smoking, but it's effects on the skin are not often talked about. There are many chemicals in cigarette smoke that affect the skin's resilience including ammonia, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, lead, mercury, nicotine and tar. (Sounds delicious, right?!) This dangerous cocktail of chemicals reduces blood flow and the circulation or oxygen, and