Why do smoking women look worse than smoking men?

Question

this had been the perception of the girls around me. idk how the boys think bout it though. however as for me, if i choose to view smokers as bad, then it goes just the same whether on men or women. same as if i were to view them as cool, yeah, it doesn't make any difference to me whether it is a man or a woman who smokes.

Answer 1

double standards... However I don't enjoy people smoking around me, either man or woman

Answer 2

Women are more negatively impacted by cigarette smoke than men because,

1) women have estrogen receptors that respond more heavily to the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. This gives cigarettes are more destructive effect in females.  And when these receptors are bothered, they STOP producing estrogen, and it triggers women into an earlier state of  hormonal fluctuation mimicking that of menopause. The voice gets deeper and heavier, and women literally start to age at faster rates than post-menopausal women. (Even if the girl starts smoking in her teens).

Women's complexions changes drastically when they start smoking. Why?  In pale complexions, with  very small amounts of eumelanin, and phaemelanin; the tar and carcinogens in cigarette smoke seep deep into the epidermis to the endodermis and get trapped. The effect is that the woman's skin will get a dusky tint to it, like cigarette ash. The settled debris, absorbed from the cigarette smoke, makes the blue veins in paler complexions more exaggerated because the blue  veins (or green veins) are complemented COLORwheel wise, and the veins are more visible. That is why smokers look dingy and gray with blue circles and blue spots on their skin.

Women of color, who have olive, brown, or other rich skin tones have adverse reactions to cigarette smoke too. The carcinogens in cigarette smoke sette below the epidermis. Since melanin (eumelanin and phaemelanin) act as antioxidants, it will take longer for the dingy skin effect to be noticed. But it will happen. Cigarette smoke damages melanin over time and changes the color of it, making it become gray and lose all kinds of warm coloring.

In the end, smokers of all colors end up with dingy skin and premature aging.

See my medical resources below.

Answer 3

Societal conditioning passed on down from the olden days.  lol  It's a biased claim that women look bad if they smoke, but its okay for men.  It's a load of bull****, and it doesn't matter what gender someone is.  If they smoke, they smoke.

People will always want to label something "Good" or "Bad".  "Pretty" or "Ugly".  "Better" or "Best".  Will it ever just be what it is.