- Mon, Jan 23, 2012 12:01 AM EST
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A before-and-after image of 42-year-old writer Anna Magee: now (left), and what she is projected to look like after smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years ... more Photo by: annamagee.wordpress.com
A before-and-after image of 42-year-old writer Anna Magee: now (left), and what she is projected to look like after smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years (right)-
When it comes to cigarettes, alcohol, and junk food, the focus is often on the impact on health, but not necessarily how it will affect appearance in the long term. Besides staining your teeth from red wine or smoke, or putting on a few pounds from excess carbs, how bad can it possibly make us look? Pretty bad, according to 42-year-old freelance journalist Anna Magee. She was guest-editing a magazine called Expert Beauty when a surgeon named Charles Nduka commissioned a piece on smoking. He put Magee in touch with Auriole Prince, a forensic artist who creates digital images of what people will look like over time based on their lifestyles. While Magee herself has noticed small signs of aging and has received cheek fillers and Botox injections, she wondered what she'd look like 10 years from now given different lifestyle factors. Prince created three projected images of Magee showing her face less 
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