The dangers of smoking are not few and far apart, and now researchers have proven that smoking also causes a loss of taste, making food a bit less enjoyable.
Young men in Greece were tested for this study, both smokers and non-smokers. The shape and number of their taste buds was tested as well as their sensitivity to taste. It was found that smokers had flatter taste buds than non-smokers, and the number of taste buds was found to be the same for both groups.
Pavlidis Pavlos, the leader of the research project says, "Statistically important differences between the taste thresholds of smokers and non-smokers were detected." However, researchers have more work to do on this topic as they were not able to explain the fact that a few of the smokers were still sensitive to taste in the same way as non-smokers…
[Via: WebMD]
