Unlike the glamor preached in the old cigarette advertisements and in the movies, the cigarette is a beauty destroyer because after a few years of smoking, in addition to nicotine addiction, lung problems and the unpleasant smell in clothes, the smoker suffers from the aesthetic degradation of skin, hair and teeth.
The National Health Service, a British institution responsible for providing health services to legal residents of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; Aware of the high smoking rate of the countries it cares for and aimed at raising awareness among young people, have you created a mobile app called Smoking Time Machine? Time Machine for Smokers, which shows how smokers will look in 20 years.
The concern to make young people aware of the harmful effects of smoking is not a drastic demand only in the countries of the United Kingdom. In Brazil, according to studies by the staff of the Alcohol and Drug Research Unit of the Federal University of São Paulo, 15.1% of the Brazilian population is dependent on tobacco, and the experience with cigarettes starts frighteningly at 13.5 years of age. Therefore, educational campaigns are carried out by the Ministry of Health, there is regulation of smoking in collective rooms and the prices of the product are increased.
Time Machine for Smokers
For now, no educational measure in Brazil has taken the same bias as the British app. Campaigns here often argue showing the dangers that cigarettes bring to health, such as cigarette boxes with images of health damage.
But Kate Norman, one of the creators of the Time Machine for Smokers, in an interview with the British Daily Mail website, explained that the use of personal aesthetics as an argument to encourage smoking cessation or reduction is often more relevant because arguments about Health are usually ignored.
?Young people ? especially, they do not usually believe that the obvious consequences of smoking such as cancer and lung disease will happen to them. But this app uses their faces and shows them how they will look. It's something that is very personal and hard to ignore. ?, completes Mrs. Norman.
The application works by sending an image of the face itself filed or photographed at the moment by the user, after a few moments the system presents the altered photo with the main physical characteristics that long-term smokers usually have: deep wrinkles around the eyes and mouth, drooping cheeks and skin with gray pallor.
As an example and for the spread of the Time Machine for Smokers, the designers of this application have publicized on various websites the future result of the face of the beautiful smoking model Kate Moss.
See also the image that shows what would look like the face of model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, in 20 years without smoking and in the second image, smoking during the 20 years. The difference is huge.
To get this technology on your smartphone, simply download it for free from the iTunes Store for iPhones or the Google Play Store for phones running Android. Those without a mobile phone powered by Apple or Google can try the app on the Cumbria Partnership website, which helped the National Health Service develop the program.
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