Cigarettes may cause hair loss
It’s common knowledge that smoking cigarettes can cause a wide range of disease, and it looks like it’s time to add another problem to the list. A new study shows that cigarettes can cause your hair loss, too.
A recent study, published in the journal Archives of Dermatology, said that “statistically significant positive associations were noted between moderate or severe baldness and smoking status”.
Scientists studying the correlation between the smoking habits and hair loss of the Taiwanese men assessed family history and other relevant factors for hair loss before drawing conclusions. They found that even when taking these things into account, hair loss was still significantly increased in smokers.
Smoking is well known to damage the circulation, and so the theory is that smoking may damage the micro-circulation supplying blood to the follicles. Once the hair is no longer being ‘fed’, it cannot survive and falls out.