SMOKING DAMAGES SKIN WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE
The entire body is subject to premature aging from cigarette
smoking, irrespective of sun-exposure, researchers here found.
Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that the findings in this study
add to the evidence that smoking prematurely ages skin.
* Caution patients that the study was relatively small, and
further study will be needed to fully determine predictive
factors in fine wrinkling of photo-protected skin.
Smoking was second only to chronological age in predicting fine
wrinkling of photo-protected skin, reported Yolanda R. Helfrich,
M.D., of the University of Michigan, and colleagues in the March
issue of Archives of Dermatology.
