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Twins comparison 14 years later

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Comparison of smoking and non-smoking twins

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/slideshow-ways-smoking-affects-looks

 

 

Twin B smoked a half a pack a day for 14 years.  The entire body is affected.   Some of the chemicals in tobacco smoke damage collagen and elastin in the skin.  The damage to collagen and elastin contribute to sagging breasts, and lack of firmness of underarms and other parts of the body.   Age spots and darkening of the skin also are accelerated.   Smokers are twice as likely to lose teeth because of gum disease.  Smoking is a clear risk factor for male-pattern baldness.  Smokers are more likely to develop macular degeneration (the major cause of adult blindness) and cataracts; also osteoporosis, psoriasis.  It is a risk factor for psoriasis.  Long-term smoking of a pack a day or more increases the risk of dying from cancer of the directly exposed tissues by 9.4 times; indirectly exposed tissues by 1.7 times.  However, though it increases the death from cardiovascular disease only 2.1 times, because cardiovascular disease accounts for nearly 75% of all deaths, this increase entails that the excess deaths attributed to smoking are greater from cardiovascular disease than from cancer.  The deadly cardiovascular effect is primarily brought about through oxidative damage to low-density lipoprotein, LDL, (the principle cause being carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion).  White blood cells which attempt to scavenge the LDL, and in the process emit a polypeptide which stimulates the process of plaque formation.  This process leads in long-term smokers to atherosclerosis, the principle cause of heart attacks and strokes--and also erectile dysfunction.   Smoking in woman is significantly associated with fertility problems, miscarriages, premature births, and low-weight infants.  Women experience menopause an average of 1.5 years earlier than nonsmokers. Smokers have twice the rate of bronchitis and phenomena.   And the list goes on, including the second most common form of

notice the age spots on twin B
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http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/backgrounders/risk-factor-tobacco.html 

Smoking causes throat cancer, heart attacks, raised blood pressure, lung cancer, respiratory disease, infertility and peptic ulcers. On average, adult smokers will die 13-14 years earlier than non-smokers; a 20-a-day smoker is losing one day of life for every week of smoking. Tobacco use is projected to be the cause of nearly 450 million deaths worldwide during the next 50 years.  ar is formed when tobacco smoke condenses and is deposited into the lungs; after a year a 20-a-day smoker will have 150 mls of tar in their lungs. Adding to tobacco’s toxicity, carbon monoxide binds to haemoglobin, preventing the flow of oxygen around the body. More deaths are caused every year by tobacco than from HIV, drug and alcohol abuse, motor accidents, suicides and murder combined.

 

twin B
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