Smoking may accelerate men’s hair loss

While Asian men generally have less trouble than Caucasians with the most common form of hereditary male baldness, smoking cigarettes may erase that edge, researchers said in a recent study. Smoking may destroy hair follicles, interfere with the way blood and hormones are circulated in the scalp or increase the production of estrogen, the researcher said. The study, published in the November issue of the Archives of Dermatology, recommended that men showing early signs of hair loss should be advised about the role smoking can play to prevent further progression.

Dangers of second hand smoking exaggerated: study

For long the perils associated with passive smoking have been cited as reasons to seek a complete ban on smoking in public places, but if a new study is to be believed the dangers of second had smoke have been exaggerated.
In a new study, long time American anti-tobacco activist and physician Dr Michael Siegal has expressed grave concern over the “obfuscation of facts” about second hand smoke.
“The inaccuracies lie in overstating the effect of a single, transient exposure to second hand smoke – a claim which cannot be validated by any scientific evidence,” he says in the study published in October 10.
Siegal contends that only repeated exposure to second hand smoke is likely to increase the risk of a heart attack for a non-smoker. “As far as the actual possibility of causing a heart attack is concerned, it is all the more likely. For the matter, even chronic exposure to second-hand smoke cannot cause a heart attack in a healthy non-smoker,” he said.
Drawing parallels between eating a single fatty meal and being exposed to second hand smoke for 20-20 minutes, he said, “the 30 and 20 minute claims were based on studies that observed merely ‘changes’ in the heart’s functioning”.

Smokers at greater risk of developing psoriasis

A new study has found that people who smoke have a greater risk of developing psoriasis, a disease which affects the skin and the joints and commonly causes red scaly patches to appear on the skin. Researchers in the US discovered that regular smokers have an increased risk of the skin condition, which only falls back to normal 20 years after quitting. The study, which included 79,000 nurses, also found that people with psoriasis who smoke had a more severe form of the disease.



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Smoking linked to teen alcohol, drug use

Teenagers who smoke are five times more likely to drink and 13 times more likely to use marijuana than those who are not smokers, a study suggests. The report by Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse presented further evidence linking youth smoking to other substance abuse and spotlighted research on how nicotine affects the adolescent brain. The report analyzed surveys conducted by the US Substance Administration and other data on youth smokers. It said that smokers aged 12 to 17 are more likely to drink alcohol than non-smokers. Those who became regular smokers by age 12 are more than three times more likely to report binge drinking than those who never smoked.