A 22-year-old male asked:
proof for smoking stunted growth at a young age? used to smoke the hookah daily at 15 and quit at 18, did i stunt my height and overall body growth?
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Dr. Bryan Levey answered
Pediatrics 27 years experience
You are...: ...22 years old. Your growth is done. I know of no way to look back in time and see exactly how much your growth was stunted, if at all, by smoking.
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Dr. Anatoly Belilovsky answered
Pediatrics 35 years experience
Yes.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18346909
nothing about the hookah in the study, but cigarettes definitely do slow growth.
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