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Did You Know?: Smoking Dulls Tastebuds
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Air date: October 18, 2009
Host: Jeremy Shere, PhD
Did you know that smoking cigarettes dulls your sense of taste?
As there weren't enough reasons to avoid or stop smoking, a recent study finds that smoking harms your ability to taste.
Smokers appear to have the same number of taste buds as non-smokers. But smoker's taste buds are flatter. This, apparently, hampers their ability to endow the tongue with a sharp sense of taste.
Other studies have found that nicotine affects brain areas associated with taste.
And now you know.
Additional Resources:
- Yet another reason to quit smoking. Read more how smoking dulls tastebuds, at WebMD.
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