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All the finger-wagging and the endless dire warnings can make hardened smokers angry at being lectured even less inclined to kick the habit

This is because nicotine can suppress appetite, but also because food tastes better when you're no longer smoking

Low-dose repeated exposures to UV radiation can increase pigmentation and skin thickness, offering some protection against skin damage during subsequent exposures, a concept called habituation

Smoking can easily chop 5-8 years off your expected lifetime

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To put it into perspective: Even if tobacco leaf contained trace caloric value, your body does not metabolize it like food