§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what research work he has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the long-term and short-term effects on the skin of smoking. [25609]
§ Ms JowellNone.
However, research has been conducted by the Twin Research Unit at St. Thomas Hospital, London which found dramatic differences in skin aging between smoking and non-smoking twins.
A smoker's skin was found to be 40 per cent. thinner than that of her twin's—0.57 millimetres compared with 0.91 millimetres.