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Letter: May I fume?

Published 13 May 2000

From Dave Reay, University of Essex

The article this week on premature ageing caused by smoking
(15 April, p 18)
helps to explain why lifelong smokers often have that “too long in the tanning
factory” look. However, the excessive wrinkling associated with such individuals
is surely also a result of countless “smoke in their eyes” incidents, together
with the deepening grimace smokers wear after each tax increase.

Issue no. 2238 published 13 May 2000

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