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6 ways smoking affects your oral health

Practically everyone knows that cigarettes can have a deadly impact on your body. Here are six ways that smoking is particularly bad for your oral health

By Lisa Bendall

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Web exclusive, November 2010

Smoking and your oral health

After viewing countless anti-smoking signs, pamphlets and commercials—even those graphic warnings printed right on a package of cigarettes—practically everyone knows that smoking is bad for your body. Smoking tobacco can lead to severe health problems, such as cancer, lung disease and heart disease. But did you ever consider the effects smoking has on your mouth? Every puff of smoke that gets into your body starts by passing your lips, tongue, teeth and gums. Here are six ways that smoking impacts your oral health.

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4 Comments

And yet, people still do it! Won't they ever learn?

Submitted by Marty on Mon, 2012-01-16 2:03pm.

When I saw what Jaime has written - I looked for 6 - It is stained Teeth. But the funny thing is there is no 7. The slide number is 7 and it reads 6, meaning 6 appears twice.

Well, the point about bad effects of smoking are taken. May be the webmaster is smoking something..........ha ha....!!!!!

Submitted by Nightrider on Mon, 2012-01-16 8:05am.

Am I he only one who noticed that number 6 is not there...

it went1,2,3,4,5,7

Submitted by Jaime on Tue, 2010-11-09 5:07pm.

One thing i do not miss about my (SMOKER) ex wife is ..It was like kissing an old ash tray

Submitted by charles on Tue, 2010-11-09 10:43am.