Smoking causes over 50 health conditions apart from lung cancer, heart disease and impotence. But a latest study on Asian men proves that smoking can also cause baldness in men, according to reports by researchers in the journal Archives of Dermatology as quoted by The Hindustan Times. Approximately 70% of men are affected with baldness as they grow old.
The biological cause is genetic but some environmental factors can also be responsible. However, researchers are now saying that smoking also causes hair loss by lowering the supply of blood to the hair follicles.
The research made on about 700 Taiwanese men at Far Eastern memorial hospital in Taipei show that smoking is related to sever baldness. Smoking can cause hair loss in Asian men, who are genetically less likely to go bald than white Caucasian men.
The research on the Taiwanese men revealed that there was a direct link between smoking and hair loss, the heaviest smoker being more prone to baldness, even when all the other factors (like genetics) were taken into account. Smoking causes severe health hazards.
Other than cancer and lung diseases it is a major risk factor in chronic bronchitis, heart disease and stroke, and other disorders such as slowed healing of wounds, impotence, infertility, and peptic ulcer disease.
According to the World Health Organisation, tobacco is the second biggest cause of death in the world, currently killing about 5 million people each year globally. One of the many ways in which tobacco is consumed is smoking.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, tobacco use is responsible for over 10 lakh deaths each year - about 2,800 people every day.
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