As more and more medical knowledge is acquired about smoking tobacco, the habit is becoming less and less popular. This is not surprising, as cigarettes cause unsightly skin and nails, not to mention respiratory diseases like emphysema, and ultimately, a slow and prolonged death through some form of cancer or other. In light of all of these horrible ailments that smoking can do to you, it is no surprise that the negative dental effects of smoking are usually delegated as secondary, or not focused on at all.