How to prevent lips from turning black while smoking?
Every puff you take sends a hit of tar and nicotine to the brain and the blood stream within milliseconds. The nicotine level in smokers’ blood acts as a chemical stimulator and speeds up the melanin (pigmentation determining skin colour) It is this increase in melanin which causes a grey/black colour to the skin, particularly, lips. Tar & Nicotine cause your blood capilliaries to constrict, causing the flow of blood through the tissues to slow and this causes your body to retain toxins. This causes the lip’s skin to loose vital moisture and elasticity thereby making it dry and dull look to it (it is also the cause for those ugly vertical lines that surround the lips of a smoker and cause you to look older than your age). It’s not only your lips that stain but teeth, gums, nails, fingers,but more importantly your lungs get stained too! The skin on your face is generally more sensitive and therefore bears the brunt of this assault on your body together with your organs including lungs,
