Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C2f3B2wrmye/ Male smokers are 84% more likely than non-smokers to lose their head of hair with aging.  University of Toronto dermatologists report this association following their meta-analysis of eight studies covering 1537 smokers and 1756 never-smokers. Besides concluding that cigarette smoking is associated with male balding, the data also shows that heavier cigarette smoking was associated with more baldness.  Those smoking more than half pack a day versus those smoking less than that were 96% more likely to lose their hair. So men, if you want to do all you can to preserve the hair on your heads, you’d be well advised to never smoke.  If you are a smoker, stopping or at least cutting down your cigarette consumption will improve your changes of avoiding baldness as well as untimely lung and heart disease. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocd.16132 #smoking #baldness #alopecia #menshealth