Shocking images reveal what smoking does to your BONES

Researchers from the University of Leicester studied human remains buried in England between AD 1150 and 1855 .

This timeline effectively sandwiches the arrival of tobacco in Western Europe in the 16th century an act commonly credited to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586 .

They found that smoking not only stains and makes dents in your teeth, but it leaves tiny chemical molecules in your gnashers - that potentially stay there forever.

By analysing remains from both before and after tobacco was introduced to Western Europe , researchers were able to 'clearly' identify bone changes.

Tobacco was purported to have huge and varied medicinal properties.

Its use became commonplace by the 17th century , even though James I of England and James VI of Scotland condemned the use of tobacco in 1604 .

James wrote that smoking was a 'custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian [very dark] smoke of the pit that is bottomless'.