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Young people who smoke and have other unhealthy lifestyle practices age faster biologically than peers without these habits, according to a study that followed 800 teenagers for a decade and assessed markers of ageing in their blood.
“I think if teenagers knew that things like smoking actually made them biologically older, it would motivate them to stay healthy,” says at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, who led the research.
We normally think of age in terms of number of birthdays – our so-called chronological age. But the biological age…
