Children and adolescents who are active smokers will have increasingly severe respiratory illness, as they grow older.

We can find adverse effects of smoking on a smoker’s facial charm. Everyone wants to have good and healthy skin. Skin originates from within. The food that we eat gets broken into simple substances and nutrients.

Nutrients and oxygen mixes up with blood and are transported to all our body parts through thousands of bloodstreams. The skin absorbs larger parts of these nutrients, which is essential for healthy stay of our body cells.

External beauty and internal health are like two sides of a coin. We get oxygen naturally through our breathing but smoking results in inhaling of harmful carbon monoxide.

Harmful Gases in Cigarette

Cigarettes not only contain carbon monoxide but also contain poisonous gases like ammonia, pyridine, parvoline, butane, nicotine, arsenic, carbolic acid, formic aldehyde, prussic acid, and cadmium.

Carbon Monoxide

When a person smokes, the most intoxicated gas, which mixes with the hemoglobin present in the blood is Carbon monoxide. Our blood cells absorb carbon monoxide gas much faster than oxygen.

In this way Oxygen is displaced with carbon monoxide in large quantity depriving our skin cells of their healthy life. Smoking and skin are inversely proportional with each other. Skin has its own repairing system.

This own repairing system of skin is destroyed by smoking and results in premature aging. Due to which the skin loses its natural glow and charm and resulting in a pale look. These outcomes on the skin are catastrophic.

Smoking - Vitamin C

Vitamin C is an essential vitamin to skin. Smoking deprives skin of vitamin C. Moreover it is an unstable vitamin and cannot be produce by body. Vitamin C helps the skin in generating new healthy cells giving the skin a youthful look. Breaking of the collagen results in wrinkles.

You can usually find sunken eyes and dark circles around the eyes of a chain smoker. It is because smoking damages the cells making it rough and causing wrinkles.

Effects of Smoking on Lips

It does show its effects of smoking on lips. Smoking making the lips black and deprive them of their natural look. People spent much money on cigarettes and tobacco, which gives them nothing but diseases and side effects.

Each one of us knows that smoking is injurious to health but still we are not able to favor our self by quitting smoking.

Instead of depriving our self of healthy and natural glow, we can spend that much amount on facials and good skin rejuvenators. You can have a healthy skin by taking a balanced diet, rich in fibers help in elimination of wastes.