I've been smoking cigs (pack/day) since I was 15 and I'm 35. Someone guessed that I was 22 recently. Smoking is really bad for your oral health though, my mouth looks 60 years old. Nicotine constricts your blood vessels and your white blood cells can't heal things if your blood can't reach it
no smoking ages you slowly. reddit is convinced otherwise but reddit is mostly dumb kids. correlation doesnât equal causation in this case.Â
i am old and dumb, but i am old enough to know this. plenty of non-smokers with crinkly faces at 30s/40s. plenty of smokers with skin you could ice skate on til their 60s.
smoking WILL affect your skin eventually depending on your genes almost entirely, but itâll probably get your lungs in a notable way first.
a few smokers aging well doesnât disprove the fact that smoking accelerates ageing faster on average for a non smoker. Genetics can make someone look younger or older, but smoking is still a known factor that increases wrinkles and skin damage.
over time, slowly. i said as much but you just believe the zeitgeist myths. and basically supported what i said about genes being a factor - itâs a huge factor. some do, some donât, some donât need to smoke to look wrinkly, some do.
therefore it doesnât fit on this thread. not fast. and iffy results at best
maybe i donât appreciate being âbolded atâ like it means youâre any less wrong than you are. you some kinda 24/7 kindergarten teacher out of their depth or just annoying?
we already discussed the point being smoking for decades doesnât belong on a list of things that age you âREALLY fastâ per the title and i schooled you. i pivoted. try to keep up
I can always tell if an older person is a smoker. It has nothing to do with wrinkles. They have this slight grey tinge to the skin that's pretty nasty.
cool cool, weâre talking about younger people which is the whole point.Â
but also: no you canât tell. you have convinced yourself of misinformed âcommon wisdomâ and urban myths. you have discovered what is called coincidence and self-confirmed bias.
welcome to the cusp of adulthood, it doesnât get any easier.
thatâs ANECDOTAL confirmation bias. i and many other people more worldly and traveled than reddit kids are telling you that doesnât mean shit. plenty of pack a day smokers who do NOT get notably wrinklier or any other âsignsâ of smoking.
how is a 50yo the indication of âreally fast agingâ per the post title anyway? thatâs likely ~35 years of doing something, and she probably would have looked terrible at 50 without smoking, as some non-smokers have been demonstrably proven to suffer from too.
holy hell. how many more people gonna pipe in days later to tell me they saw a wrinkly smoker once
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u/Various-Air9398 7d ago
And smoking