Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Good news for evil smokers

Or at least ones who were blessed with non-wrinkly skin. I look exactly like Wonder's mom, my aunt. So I have a good idea what I'll look like 20 years from now and the news is good on both the wrinkle and the smoking front (she's got amazing wrinkle free skin and every time I see her I think 'damn I got the good genes'):

Middle-aged smokers with heavily lined faces have a five times higher risk of lung disease than their un-wrinkled peers, a study has suggested.

After age and the number of years someone had smoked were taken into account, smokers with lined faces were five times more likely to have COPD.

Facial wrinkling was also associated with triple the risk of more severe emphysema.


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