3 Ways Long-term Cigarette Smoking Can Negatively Affect Your Personality: Study

3 Ways Long-term Cigarette Smoking Can Negatively Affect Your Personality: Study
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While the risks of smoking for health have been amply demonstrated in scientific studies and the high cost to health care systems that smokers present, a new study in the Journal of Research in Personality shows that long-term smoking can also alter a person’s personality.

The study found that smoking is “likely to alter individuals’ characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving over time.”