Smoking may give you bad breath, smelly clothing, yellow teeth -- but a beard??!! A recent study of more than 50,000 women found that those who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day were 50 percent more likely to have excessive facial hair than nonsmokers. The study attributed the abnormality to the affects smoking has on the balance of male and female hormones and the medical and cosmetic consequences of tobacco use.

("Protons zero in on cancer treatment," Chicago Tribune, 8/16/96) http://www.ymn.org/tobacco/tns.briefs.shtml