Face-ageing software encourages young smokers to quit

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[QUOTE]The importance of personal appearance at an older age is persuading some young adult smokers to quit

DESLEY BLANCH : A computer-generated photo of your future smoker’s face when you’re aged 50 or 60 was enough to encourage a significant number of young adult smokers to quit.

The study was conducted in pharmacies throughout Perth in Western Australia by Mrs Oksana Burford, a pharmacist and lecturer at the School of Pharmacy at Perth’s Curtin University.

Educational anti-smoking information was given to all 160 participants and half of them were photographed with internet-based APRIL photo-ageing software which simulates the effects of smoking on their faces at an older age.

The results showed 13.8 per cent of participants exposed to the photo-ageing technology reported quitting altogether, while only 1.3 per cent of the group not exposed to the photographs quit smoking.[/QUOTE]

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[Silentfood]

[i]"50 year old learns trick to aging, click here to find out and learn her trick!!!!!"[/i]

[Sobek-]

[QUOTE=Silentfood;40546187][i]"50 year old learns trick to aging, click here to find out and learn her trick!!!!!"[/i][/QUOTE]

Tricks are OK. It's when they make doctors mad that you're crossing the line.

[Silentfood]

[QUOTE=Sobek-;40546265]Tricks are OK. It's when they make doctors mad that you're crossing the line.[/QUOTE]

maybe science has gone too far

[Francisco]

But wrinkles and looking old makes you cooler dood...

[Death_God]

in20years is much better

[joost1120]

This will probably scare them off. The last face-ageing program certainly scared me.
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[Spazi]

Can't wait for this to get abused.

[The Baconator]

Surprised there hasnt been a persecution complex smoker post here yet

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=The Baconator;40547010]Surprised there hasnt been a persecution complex smoker post here yet[/QUOTE]Only time i've noticed those is in threads about legislation against smoking, rarely do I see ones against established medical facts. Always the occasional one, though.