What research specifically proves "smoking causes premature skin aging"? I'll tell you now.
But first, I'll share my joy: my collection of "funny pictures" is complete. I had such a dream - to collect every single Russian and non-Russian pictures on cigarette packs and find the source of each of all these "black lungs", "amputations", "prematurity".
My attentive readers may remember the previous columns on this topic, including one special one - about why there are no "funny pictures" in the United States. But because the American court ruled: you can't lie. Behind every picture should be verified and proven medical facts, research. And now, you will not believe, for several years now, there have been packs of cigarettes there - without horror, because no one wants to go to jail. It turns out that there are no proven facts.
So, I got to the last point of the collection. This is about "premature aging of the skin". But really, I wonder - what is "premature"? How can you prove that if you didn't smoke, your skin would be like a peach? After all, it needs to split you in two, one you smoke, the other does not, and one of you looks better in the end
But they did it! The story is this: there is a regularly held festival of twins in Ohio, the city of Twinsburg. American scientists have chosen as many as 79 pairs of twins, one of which smoked, the other did not. Although about the "scientists" - this is still a question, because, as always, the research was carried out even by doctors, but at the same time by people from anti-tobacco organizations. That is, propagandists. And science assumes that the researcher is impartial, and the result of the research is not known to him in advance.
But, one way or another, a number of immoderately wrinkled smoking twins were found, photographs were taken (of a smoking brother and a non-smoker), plastic surgeons had their say that the cells of the smoker's skin do not have enough oxygen, which causes collagen to break down. Research published. It happened in 2010.
Note that, collecting my collection, I sometimes gave the readers the opportunity to draw their own conclusions - science is in front of us or a propaganda action like the famous pig's "black lungs" painted with a brush. In general, figure it out for yourself - is it possible to believe professional propagandists, even if they claim that the twins had the same lifestyle, that is, the smoker was not overtired compared to the non-smoker, etc.
This is not all. There was also a Japanese experience in the city of Nagoya. There they took a saline solution, in which freshly exfoliated skin cells floated, they were exposed directly to smoke, after which the activity of enzymes in the cells decreased, which destroyed collagen, the main building material of the skin.
Decide for yourself what degree of confidence this science evokes.
The main thing is to firmly drive it into your head: if a smoker has a gray complexion, bags under the eyes and deep wrinkles, this is because he smokes. If he smokes and looks great, then he is a statistically insignificant minority and will not be recruited for any research.
Well, if he has a gray complexion, bags under his eyes and deep wrinkles, but he, the bastard, never took a cigarette in his mouth, then his lifestyle is already to blame: heavy night work and so on.
However, what does it mean "with him" - "with her", of course! Who is this particular scary picture of two halves of a face, pink and gray, for? On a woman, of course. And the face in the picture is therefore feminine. Bearded bikers are asked not to worry. For them, other pictures are impotence or something else. By the way, is the sagging belly skin also from the smoke? Or does it have to be fumigated directly?
Let's wait until science tells us that the electronic cigarette "causes premature aging of the skin." It will be just a song - not only smoke, but also steam makes it known that I am afraid that they will not resist and "prove" themselves on the mountain. And where to go.
You think that this is the end of the conversation. No, just the beginning (with a jump to the next column). This beginning began with how one friend of mine brightened up terribly when she heard about the Japanese experience: well, is it about the direct effect of smoke on the skin of the face? So that's why ladies in the beautiful "age of jazz" - mainly the 20s - fell in love with long mouthpieces, about 30 centimeters! Smoke flies past your face! And if you still gracefully throw your head back, releasing rings from painted lips
And I got myself such a mouthpiece (after all, they are on sale today), and it looks very cute.
What I mean is that if there is a harmful effect of some factor, tobacco or coffee, or something else, then there are ways to minimize this impact.
Professional fighters against smoking should hate cosmetologists fiercely. Look at any jar of cream, and you will see there the answer to all the questions mentioned above - about oxygen, enzymes, collagen, and so on. Creams are just so that the skin is nourished and better retained its elasticity. If you are a man and think that you will be misunderstood when they find a jar of cream during a visit to your bathroom - get yourself a cream on which the magic words "for men" will be written. By the way, the cream is not necessarily expensive.
