does smoking stunt growth?

Hey, im 14 and i have probably smoked around 200 cigarettes. If it is true that smoking stunts your growth, am i screwed now? or if i stop will i proceed in growing? please help. :)

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No, I say it's complete bs. My dad smoked all his life, he is now in his 50's but in his earlier years he stood at 6'4. His parents were under 6' as were his ancestors. I can trace no evidence anyone on his side reaching over 6'. Now how does this add up? Me, I inherited my dads genes I guess, since I'm 16 and almost 6'6. I've smoked since I was just turning 15 and at that time I was 6'4. I don't really chart my growth but 2 inches in about 1.5 years with casual smoking(about a pack every 1-2 weeks) says this is a myth. But anyhow my dad chain smoked for his whole life, since he was 11, and he outgrew everybody in the family.

My theory: these stupid health sites use this against ignorant kids to scare them in to thinking that their going to be cursed with shortness if they even inhale second hand smoke. As if the fact that they kill you wasn't enough? And that's another thing, my dads mother lived to 83 all the while smoking since her pre-teen years, now my dad is healthily approaching his 60's with a pack in his hand and a backup in his shirt pocket.

Me, I'm searching for ways to stop my growth since smoking and reducing sleep just wasn't doing the trick.

smoking aint good for you no how! it makes u have bad breath, it makes u stink, makes ur teeth yellow, and it makes ur skin pale and wrinkly! so wow ur dad made it over to be 6'4 congratulations how u gon lie and say that ur dad is healthy r u sure about that? how did ur grandmah die? was it frum cancer? i bet it was. smoking sucks! and u say u want to stop smoking cuz ur too tall? do u know how many pepole wud die to be ur hieght for one day?  ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** inappropriate posting*** Please read our Terms of Use

peace!

Whoa, hold up there bro. My dad just hit 65 and he has been smoking since his teens too. He still works 10 hours a day in mechanics and doesn't complain one bit. Yes smoking is a really unhealthy thing to do but it isn't as bad as the heath companies say. Yeah cigarettes will make you look older but no where near ten years old as they claim. I ,myself, have been smoking since the age of 13. I'm 17 years old now and I'm still growing. Yes it does make your teeth yellow but does not turn your skin pale. You might get more wrinkles in your way older years but that's just natural. As for hygiene, It's completely unrelated. Please research a little more before attacking some one. Thank you, Good bye.

i think it only affects certain people, for an example, im 5 foot 10 and still growing but im not small and ive been smoking since i was 12 and im 15 now.also i know another guy who is my age and we started smokin at the same age nd hes tiny...so, the only real way your gonna find out if you stop growing is by start smoking and see how tall you are(i just noticed now STUNTS YOUR GROWTH, i say its to scare minors off because nobody wants to grow up small!!!)

burnt tobacco smells great btw... how dare you accuse his granfather of being dead, and how could you assume it would of been by cancer, you have no right to comment on this guys status and attempt to belittle him because of his views and experiences of smoking. you obviously are a little punk brat who thinks he can tune people because hes behind a computer screen. you should grow up and respect others opinions, and stop thinking its all about your own.

You speak the f*****g truth. You got mad brains if your actually 13.

I also want to add that regular smoking has no effects on growth what so ever, its a myth. Its NEVER been proven, and that i am 100% sure of.

now live your lives and stop worrying so much, there are consequenses to almost everything you do.

This topic is very controversial, I think it mostly depends on your genes and it differs from each person. The facts are that people that never smoke are generally in better health than the ones who do, but that doesn't mean that every person that smokes will die. Marijuana has been proven to be somehow a bit good for you but in small amounts and not every day. If you are in your adolescent period and in the time when you start growing radically it would be best to cut off from smoking and wait until your body has stopped changing if you are eager to smoke. 

Who cares, you live in a developed country with laws. Right?, so; who cares?

how long do drugs effect your growth for? please help

You are implicitly and sneakily trying to tell this boy to stop smoking and to stop hanging out with his friends, by implying it in hyperbolized examples.

Kid, if you really are 11, let me tell you that smoking does some bad sh*t and some good. My teeth have gotten a bit pess white, but my brain is soaring with many new philosophical understandings of Life.

i am 18 complete 19 running my heigth was 5.4 ,how many years i will growth my weight was 60kgs

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Take with this with a little bit of salt, because it may be hard for you. Smoking stunts your growth, yes, but to stunt growth you have to be "growing." If you start smoking heavily before you biggest growth spurt and continue on then yes. You would probably be shorter than you could have potentially been. In your case you smoked alot after and still grew some. Yeah you still will grow, but you never know, you could have been 6' 6 and 1/2".

Well, if you want people to respect what you say, you should learn how to spell. "Alot"s actually two words....a lot......ignorant. Pot smoking effects testosterine and that can cause a stunt in growth, muscle development and hair loss. You sound like a stoner yourself!

can i just say since you're being so pedantic to the other guy...you said pot smoking "effects testosterine" whereas you should have said it "AFFECTS TESTOSTERONE"...so if you want people to respect what you say whilst telling people how to spell...maybe you should learn how to spell yourself.

I stopped growing when I started smoking,and I know a lot of other people who are a couple of inches shorter than their siblings and also stopped growing when they started smk. I don't know if it's reversable but it's worth a shot. I quit 10 yrs ago and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. If at all possible QUIT,do whatever you can to quit.
My oncologyst cousin pulled me aside and told me-cigarrettes may kill you or may hardly affect you,but,by the time you find out it's TOO LATE.

We want a concrete answer .
Why smoking can't your growth ?
Why Smoking stunt your growth ?
There is no specialist doctor here to solve this case ??

if u smoke weed once or twice a month it can increase your lung capacity because you inhale very deep when you smoke it :)

Yes of course is cause smoking can stunt the growth.
And stunt meens you won"t grow any more as soon as.
Some people started to smoke since they were aged.
15 year old and you will never grow up if you smoke