Does Smoking Speed Up Brain Ageing

Smoking speeds up brain ageing, but the brain recuperates if you give up, say scientists gathering at the ‘For Later Life’ conference organised by the Age UK on 18 November 2015.

Looking at MRI scans of 244 men and 260 women, and analysing the thickness of the brain layer called the cortex, they found smokers’ brain-cortices to be thick, meaning decline of cognitive function and ramped up brain ageing.


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