Face after smoking

rMercer, JamesHøiland, Ina IsabellaionedTZionedTZbleTZctIn recent years the number of people using cigarettes in Norway has significantly declined, with intake of nicotine being replaced by smokeless tobacco (ST) products such as snus placed in the oral cavity.

While health risks from smoking cigarettes are well known little is known about health risks of using ST. The main aim of this thesis was to compare the effects of oral use of snus with nicotine (SN+) and snus without nicotine (SN-) on skin perfusion in the hands and face in young habitual users of snus.

Red face after smoking weed

Skin perfusion was indirectly monitored by measuring changes in by skin temperature using infrared thermography. The main findings of this study were a strong decrease in skin perfusion in the hands in the SN+ subjects, with little or no effect in the SN- controls.

SN+ had no effect on the skin temperature of the inner canthus of the eye, which will be of interest to those using t