Many studies have linked cigarette smoking with cognitive decline and dementia, and some also with brain degeneration. Photo: AFP
Damage to the brain’s outer layer caused by smoking may be reversible after quitting, but it could take years, reveals a recent study.
Brain scans of 500 Scottish septuagenarians confirmed a link between smoking and an acceleration of age-related thinning of the cortex – the outer layer of grey matter, researchers reported.
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