CB! Sunday News, December 14, 1980

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BEAUTIFUL YOU

Tobacco harmful to skin

By RENE VINCENT

Smoking, heavy drinking
and drugs can destroy your
appearance.

A clinical study com-
paring the skin of smoking
and non-smoking individuals
shows that in every age
group, the individuals who
smoked heavily had much
more yellowed and wrinkled
skin than non-smokers.

The nicotine in tobacco
causes the small blood
vessels in the skin to con-
tract and decrease the blood
circulation. Since the
healthy pink coloration of
the skin is due in large part
to the color of the blood
circulating under the skin's
surface, less blood cir-
culation means less of this
pink color. Thus the skin

looks yellow and sallow.
“Light drinking is not
harmful to the skin. A little
wine dilates the blood
vessels and creates a nice
healthy blush to the skin.

Heavy drinking is another
story, however. The dilating
effect alcohol has on the
blood vessels can, after a
period of time, cause tiny
blood vessels to burst and
ruin an otherwise attractive
complexion.

Alcohol also robs the skin
of water. You know how dry
and thirsty your mouth feels

the morning after? Your skin
is dry and thirsty, too.
Alcohol leaches water out of
the tissues, making normal
or dry skin flaky and dull
looking.

Skin problems due to
drugs are self-inflicted and
unnecessary. All drug abuses
affect the skin's appearance.

“Sniffers” or “poppers”
interfere with the body's

‘ability to obtain oxygen. The

skin can actually turn blue
for a short time. Habitual
use of marijuana can
aggravate acne if it is already
present and can also cause
conjunctivitis, “red eye”.

Tranquilizers have been
known to cause an allergic
rash or shedding of the skin.
Amphetamines or “speed”
can also cause allergic
reactions. Even low doses
make the mouth and lips
very dry.

Heroin can totally wreck
your appearance. The areas
in which drugs are injected
become scarred, veins are
stopped up with blood clots,
ulcers, infections, blisters
and abscesses can develop.
The skin loses its elasticity at
a very early age.

There are some remedies
for the problems that
smoking and abuse of
alcoho! cause to the skin like
steaming and cleansing the
skin and the application of a

mask to rebuild the skin’s
elasticity. There is no
remedy for the problems
caused to the skin by the use
of drugs. It’s simply
devastating.

Rene Vincent is executive
director of the Allied Beauty
Association, a national, non-
profit trade association
formed by the professional
beauty industry to improve
the quality of haircare.

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