Certain chemicals in smoke break down in hair cells, which leads to hair damage
Eugene Umberger [183] These works were all published in an era before the cigarette had become the dominant form of tobacco consumption and pipes, cigars, and chewing tobacco were still commonplace
Moreover, CS altered microbial niches at multiple oral sites, enriching Treponema and Selenomonas in saliva and Dialister and Atopobium on the tongue
Smoking only about one cigarette per day carries a risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke much greater than expected: around half that for people who smoke 20 per day, the researchers wrote in the conclusion
Current Opinion in Oncology
In other words, the delivery system has changed, but the substance driving the addiction remains the same