See how tobacco changes people. Take a tour around and in the body by pressing the plus and minus symbols. Move the scroll button in the middle of the page to compare the differences between smokers and non-smokers.
The smoker's skin looks unhealthy, because the chemicals in cigarette smoke makes the skin's elastic fibers snap more easily. This causes the skin to lose its elasticity. A weary face is not a popular one: out of the 100 most popular profile pictures in a dating service only two were pictures of smokers.
The non-smoker's face looks healthy, because there are no skin-weakening substances circulating in her blood. Not smoking has the same effect as cosmetics: the skin stays healthy and attractive.
Smokers are more likely to get spots. Smoking weakens the skin’s blood circulation, which increases the risk of infections. Smokers' acne is also more difficult than usual.
The non-smoker's skin remains spotless, because her blood circulation does what it's supposed to do. It helps avoid infections and makes it easier to get rid of spots.
Wrinkles come sooner for smokers. Smoking decreases the skin’s collagen and elastin levels – both familiar from tv ads – which harms its elasticity and firmness. It wrinkles.
Non-smokers have five times less wrinkles compared to smokers who have smoked a pack a day for 25 years, according to research.
A yellow smile reveals the smoker. The discolouration is caused by tar getting stuck in the cracks of the tooth enamel.
The non-smoker's smile is beautiful and white. Less tartar develops on non-smokers' teeth than on smokers' teeth. Removing tartar is an uncomfortable drag.
Smokers have bad breath. As many as 20 per cent of people have ended relationships because of smoking. Halitosis isn't appealing.
The non-smoker's breath doesn't smell of tar, and there's no green phlegm being pushed out by a smoker's cough. In Burn magazine's interviews several celebrities revealed they prefer kissing non-smokers.
A yellow smile reveals the smoker. The discolouration is caused by tar getting stuck in the cracks of tooth enamel. Smoking and using snuff can also cause oral cancer.
If you don’t smoke you get less tartar which is really uncomfortable to remove. Non-smokers are also four times less likely to get oral cancer.
Smokers have brittle hair, and they are more likely to go bald and grey than others. Chemicals from tobacco gather in the hair, and cause hairs to break off before they are fully grown.
Non-smokers usually get to enjoy the colour and quantity of their hair longer than smokers.
A smoking woman inhales moustache-growing substances with nicotine. Cigarettes decrease female hormone levels, which in turn causes an increase of male hormones and hairiness – and that can be seen on the smoker's face.
The non-smoking woman usually has no additional hairs growing under her nose, since she is not increasing her share of male hormones by smoking. No need for a five-bladed special razor.
The smoker is more stressed than the non-smoker. Side effects of smoking cause constant nervousness. It’s a myth that cigarettes calm you down.
The non-smoker is not constantly glancing at her watch, tapping the table, or wondering when she can smoke the next time. She focuses on living in the moment.
Hairs are more likely to grow on the smoking woman’s arms, because tobacco increases her male hormone levels.
The non-smoking woman is less likely to have as much hair growing on her arms as a smoker. Not smoking keeps her male hormone levels normal.
Dear Smoker, we're sorry to inform you that according to nail fashion experts, nicotine yellow is not this season's colour.
The non-smokers decide what colour their nails are – natural or polished but never yellowed by nicotine.
Smoking damages the lungs and makes breathing more difficult. The smoker can't run or dive as long as others. When old age hits, there is also the risk of chronic obstructive lung disease. It feels like breathing with your hands in front of your mouth and nose.
There's less phlegm in the non-smoker’s lungs and a smaller infection risk. The non-smoker can climb up the stairs of an apartment block, even when a little older. The smoker will be breathing heavily before getting even halfway.
The unpleasant dark lump there is lung cancer. Smoking causes nine out of ten lung cancer cases. The risk of getting lung cancer increases the earlier you start to smoke, the longer you smoke and the more you smoke.
Congratulations, non-smoker! The risk of you getting lung cancer is small.
The smoker is often obese. She specifically invites abdominal obesity, and all the additional mass gathers along her waist, even when there is no additional weight. Nonetheless, out of 16–24-year-olds, smoking girls are the most overweight.
Hey non-smoking girl, you are on a wonder diet and you don't even know it! Your body shape is closer to the average, whereas research shows that smokers weigh more and are rounder around the abdominal area.
That nasty hole is a peptic ulcer. The nicotine in cigarettes weakens the stomach's ability to fight the Helicobacter pylori, and causes the ulcer.
No nasty surprises here, because the non-smoker's stomach is safe from nicotine. That's why its immunity remains strong against, for example, the Helicobacter pylori that causes peptic ulcers.
The image shows a blood clot, which can lead to sudden death. For smokers the risk of a blood clot is double compared to non-smokers.
Not smoking helps to keep the blood vessels healthy.
The fetus in the picture is restless, because the mother is smoking. The chemicals from the cigarette travel unfiltered along the umbilical cord to the fetus. This is how the unborn child is exposed to even bigger levels of dangerous chemicals than the mother.
Here we see a healthy fetus, whose mother does not smoke. When the mother smokes during pregnancy, the nicotine shrinks the blood vessels, and as a consequence the unborn child suffers from a lack of oxygen throughout pregnancy.
The sex life of smoking women is not as good as that of non-smokers. Their liver breaks down estrogen, the female hormone, with more efficiency, and that in turn lessens their interest in sex.
Non-smoking is a good route to a healthy sex life. Cigarette smoke harms the bacteria that protects from infections, and as a result smoking women are more liable to have vaginal infections and foul smelling white vaginal discharge (leucorrhoea).
