Smoking and heavy drinking increase facial ageing: study

First large study to link the habits to skin ageing may help encourage patients give up: researchers
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Doctors have a new incentive to entice women to quit smoking and cut back on the booze, with research highlighting the heavy toll the two habits have on facial ageing.

The Monash University-led international research involving more than 3200 women aged 18-75 from Australia, the US, Canada and the UK is the first large, multinational study to demonstrate the link between smoking and alcohol consumption, and how women look.