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Adult Acne and Smoking Linked, Study Finds

by Lisa Schweitzer (Subscribe to Lisa Schweitzer's posts)
Posted Jul 21st 2010 at 11:00AM  
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Adult acne and smoking link is more of a reason to give up cigarettes. Photo: Getty

Not that you need another reason to kick the habit, but a recent study published in the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology reveals that there is close correlation between comedonal adult acne in women who smoke.

The study also dispels the widely-held notion that papulopustular post-adolescent acne (PPAA) is the most common form of adult acne in women as opposed to comedonal post-adolescent acne (CPAA).

Translation? Blackheads and non-inflamed bumps are now thought to be more prevalent than inflamed cystic acne in adult women.

Smokers represented 66.3 percent of the whole group, but there were significantly more smokers among the CPAA than the PPAA group, at 72.9 percent and 29.4 percent, respectively. In addition, a strong link was discovered between the number of daily cigarettes smoked and CPAA severity. Yet, smoking did not seem to have an impact on inflamed cystic acne.

"The findings will affect our treatments, and we will need more products with Vitamin A and alpha and beta hydroxyl-acids to clear the skin along with exfoliating products, as well as more education for the public at large about the damaging effects smoking can have on the body's largest organ, the skin," explains Dr. Marcy Street, a dermatologist in East Lansing, Mich.

Bottom line? If only for the good of your complexion, stamp out that cigarette!

In other skincare news, a recent study discovered higher skin cancer death rates among African Americans and Hispanics.
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trish, 7-21-2010, 8:37PM

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Well then if this is true, why do my son and daughter have acne? My son is worse than my daughter, he has CP( he's 29) and totaly unable to do anything for him self, I am his care giver, so I KNOW he's not smoking OR drinking or eating junk food, and my daughter (28 yrs.) is a health nut. It's just geans, not smoking or junk food or drinking.

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Janet, 7-21-2010, 8:26PM

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I guess they will blame everything on smoking pretty soon.
One pleasure left in life and they are always finding more things wrong with it.

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Guillermina, 7-21-2010, 9:07PM

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Guillermina

Women should not smoke to begin with. Smoking is VERY unladylike, and seeing that i'm a lady, I can say that. Nothing is more unladylike than seeing a woman smoking or drinking.

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bloodraven55, 7-21-2010, 9:10PM

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bloodraven55

I quit smoking over 3 months ago (and I tried pro-activ) and my acne is worse now than it ever was. You either have acne or you don't, that is the bottom line. You want to do something about it, see a dermatologist. That is what I plan on doing.

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vinar, 7-21-2010, 10:02PM

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vinar

My friend told me to apply aloe vera gel from the plant and the cocoa butter to clear up the scar. I tried the aloe vera, but I didn't keep up with it. I hope it works for you.

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Kevin, 7-21-2010, 10:58PM

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THe anti-smoking zealots won't be satisfied until they convince the world that smoking causes everything bad...BP disaster-smoking, global warming-smoking, unemployment-smoking.

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Ayrol, 7-22-2010, 1:00AM

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The same disease that causes acne causes the need to smoke. Tobacco was the only answer for anything anywhere. My morbid acne was caused by the cryptococcus fungus. As usual medical science has everything backwards. That is because it is sombody's false religion and not science.

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MISSW, 7-22-2010, 1:01AM

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SPOKEN LIKE FAITHFUL LITTLE SMOKERS... HA HA ... GO AHEAD AND DEFEND YOUR CRACK. YOUR LEGAL HEROINE. YOUR FIX. BELIEVE IT IS HARMLESS AND ACCEPTABLE. O AHEAD. AND WHEN YOU ARE CHOKING ON Y OUR OWN MUCOUS AND UNABLE TO BREATHE WHEN YOUR CANCEROUS LUNGS CAN NO LONGER DELIVER OXYGEN TO YOUR BODY... THANK YOUR BELOVED FRIEND WHO KILLED YOU AND RAPED YOU OF YOUR DIGNITY. YOU LIVE FOR CIGARETTES AND THEY LIVE TO KILL YOU.

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Maia, 7-22-2010, 5:55AM

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Let me first say that the only person in my family to develop cancer was the one who didn't smoke. Not everyone gets cancer from it. That being said, anti-smoking zealots kind of put me in mind of the religious groups that come door to door and bug you while you're getting ready for work... or the people who actually care that Lindsay Lohan got arrested. WHO cares?? It has nothing to do with them. Honestly, even if someone wanted to do actual Heroin, why does it have to affect you? I make it a point to not smoke around non-smokers or kids, and to ask before I light up when I am around others. And I don't go door to door smoking at people, or reading "Origin of the Species" at the religious nuts. But I still get hassled. So, since being nice and respectful to others is getting me nowhere, I have decided to take up the MO of the general populous and start acting as rude as possible. I will start by going up to random strangers and insulting them or bossing them around. I will then proceed to start telling everyone how to live their life. Then, I plan on making a trip to Salt Lake City, where I will hand out my Darwin pamphlets, along with pro-smoking propaganda. All this will be done while blowing clouds of smoke at everyone I see...

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MissCriss, 7-22-2010, 1:10AM

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Smokers smell like filthy animals. Is it a surprise that the poison smoke that is all around their faces would cause acne? I wish it caused face cancer.. then maybe these people would stop! Never mind acne.. how about big black gaping cancerous sores?? Newsflash people.... if you smoke you are taking in poison, you are sitting in a cloud of poison and you are poisoning those around you. And one more thing... even if you spray on perfume... it does not help, you still smell putrid. Whatever they put in cigarettes to get people hooked must be pretty strong.... because it makes about as much sense as eating from a dumpster.

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merry jain, 7-30-2010, 2:31AM

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http://www.emersonscigars.com

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MISSW, 7-22-2010, 2:32PM

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maria- I suppose then it would be OK to encourage all the crackheads to come blow smoke at you and around you because after all that's their poison of choice? And hey- its a free country... how RUDE of anyone to insult their crackheadedness?! Please woman- your 'legal crack' is repulsive. If you want to have smokers breath, that's your problem. But when you drive your car be sure to keep your windows closed and choke on your own poison instead of letting it blow out for others to breathe in. Keep yourself locked up in your apartment in your billowing clouds of pollution and spare those who wish not to paratake unsuspectingly in cancerous second hand smoke. Give me a break. Only crack heads defend their right to smoke crack. If you read up on the subject... cigarettes have been shown to be more addictive than cocaine and heroin. Have a nice choke filled day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

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harleyrider1978, 7-25-2010, 8:14AM

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They have created a fear that is based on nothing’’
World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of the absence of harm from passive smoking. A shocking interview.




What do the studies on passive smoking tell us?



PHILIPPE EVEN. There are about a hundred studies on the issue. First surprise: 40% of them claim a total absence of harmful effects of passive smoking on health. The remaining 60% estimate that the cancer risk is multiplied by 0.02 for the most optimistic and by 0.15 for the more pessimistic … compared to a risk multiplied by 10 or 20 for active smoking! It is therefore negligible. Clearly, the harm is either nonexistent, or it is extremely low.



It is an indisputable scientific fact. Anti-tobacco associations report 3 000-6 000 deaths per year in France ...



I am curious to know their sources. No study has ever produced such a result.



Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks. Not you?



They don’t base it on any solid scientific evidence. Take the case of cardiovascular diseases: the four main causes are obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. To determine whether passive smoking is an aggravating factor, there should be a study on people who have none of these four symptoms. But this was never done. Regarding chronic bronchitis, although the role of active smoking is undeniable, that of passive smoking is yet to be proven. For asthma, it is indeed a contributing factor ... but not greater than pollen!



The purpose of the ban on smoking in public places, however, was to protect non-smokers. It was thus based on nothing?



Absolutely nothing! The psychosis began with the publication of a report by the IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, which depends on the WHO (Editor's note: World Health Organization). The report released in 2002 says it is now proven that passive smoking carries serious health risks, but without showing the evidence. Where are the data? What was the methodology? It's everything but a scientific approach. It was creating fear that is not based on anything.



Why would anti-tobacco organizations wave a threat that does not exist?



The anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette prices having failed, they had to find a new way to lower the number of smokers. By waving the threat of passive smoking, they found a tool that really works: social pressure. In good faith, non-smokers felt in danger and started to stand up against smokers. As a result, passive smoking has become a public health problem, paving the way for the Evin Law and the decree banning smoking in public places. The cause may be good, but I do not think it is good to legislate on a lie. And the worst part is that it does not work: since the entry into force of the decree, cigarette sales are rising again.



Why not speak up earlier?



As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man.



Le Parisien

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