Electronic Cigarette Tavern

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Why does smoking affect your sense of smell? The 1986 National Geographic Smell Survey concluded that, of the individuals polled, smokers rated the intensity of androstenone, cloves, and gas as weaker than those of persons that do not smoke, while banana and musk were viewed as stronger by smokers. However, smokers and nonsmokers did not differ in their picking up of the rose scent. In addition, smokers were less sure of their own ability to detect odors. Just as thought, the responses of smokers to the survey showed a diminished sensitivity to odor quality. Smokers thought the odors deemed as unpleasant by nonsmokers to be less offensive, and indicated a diminished appreciation of the pleasant odors, in addition. (Gilbert and Wysocki, 1987).

In a further study done at the University of Indiana, one hundred students were asked to use their noses to find their own shirts from a layout of shirts. Of the one hundred students, seventy four were able to accurately identify their own shirts by scent only. However, of the smoking participants that smoked more than ten cigarettes a day, nearly half could not accurately locate their own shirts. If you smoke cigarettes, your sense of smell may not be as good as it should be. Smokers have more trouble identifying odors than nonsmokers do, and about twice as many smokers as nonsmokers have a reduced sense of smell. Smoking affects the sense of smell in both young people and older ones.

The sense of smell is more significant than you may know. A lot of the flavor of food actually comes from its smell, rather than its taste. People who can’t smell well do not enjoy their food as much as other people do. The sense of smell is also important for safety. For example, people with an impaired sense of smell would be less able to detect the odor that is added to natural gas (the kind of gas used in gas stoves) to alert people to gas leaks.

So the bottom line is, smoking damages your sense of smell. This may not ‘seem’ so serious, but you need to just think about this for a minute. As stated previously, much of the flavor of food actually comes from its smell, rather than taste. Then there are the simple pleasures of life like smelling a rose, smelling fine wine and the likes; surely, these are things to be treasured and not just surrendered for a cigarette or two which can only offer a moment’s satisfaction.

Related posts:

1. Long Term Effects of Smoking in Teens? How many teens start smoking cigarettes each year and what...
2. How to remove smoking smell from clothes? How to remove smoking smell from clothes? There are a...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.