o       sedates the throat muscles and causes them to collapse

o       dilates blood vessels which swells up throat tissue

<    Cigarette smoking, which inflames the upper airway

<    The normal aging process, which can simply lead to a loss of muscle tone in the neck and thus snoring

So while we’ve looked at what snoring is, and what (rather common) factors and variables lead to/increase snoring, there still remains a very important element to focus upon: just how devastating is snoring?  We answer this rather ominous question in part two of this book, below.