The bald facts: Smokers risk hair loss - as well as fatal illnesses - The Independent 26th November 2007

Monday, November 26, 2007

Smoking is known to make your legs fall off. Now, it appears, it makes your hair fall out, too – and possibly for the same reasons. A study of Asian men, renowned for hanging on to their hair compared with follically-challenged Europeans and Americans, found puffing on cigarettes can hasten male hair loss. Smoking is known to accelerate ageing and is associated with facial wrinkles and grey hair. It is also causes a dozen different kinds of cancer and heart disease and damages circulation.


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Smoking 'adds to risk of going bald' - The Times 26th November 2007

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