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Acne puts spot-light on female smokersDate: 18/09/2007 09:06:35
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Yet another health risk warning has been issued to smokers, but only to women – female smokers have now been told that they increase their risk of developing acne.
Studies from the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome, published in the British Dermatological Journal, targeted only women, believing acne to affect men less frequently.
Of the 1,000 women surveyed, 40 per cent of smokers had the blocked pores and large white heads marking non-inflammatory acne, while only ten per cent of non-smokers displayed the facial ailment.
Researchers identified significantly lower levels of Vitamin E skin secretion than in non-smokers, leaving their skin more exposed to acne - but the case is by no means closed.
Other factors are known to contribute more directly to acne development, including stress, hormonal alterations and perhaps most importantly, environmental factors like exposure to smoke or steam, identified in half of the non-smoking acne-sufferers.
If substantiated, the study means more bad news for female smokers, for whom US research several years ago identified a higher risk of lung cancer development than for men.
Women, however, are not the biggest smokers in the UK, with government figures for 2004/05 showing that only 23 per cent of women smoked, compared to 26 per cent of men.
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