Smoker's face describes the characteristic changes that happen to the faces of many people who smoke. The general appearance is of accelerated ageing of the face, with a characteristic pattern of facial wrinkling and sallow coloration. A summary of a study published by the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

found that certain facial features appeared in about 46% of continuing smokers and 8% of former smokers who had smoked a full decade while those same features were absent in a control group of non-smokers.

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