On Sun 30 Jan 2005 05:47:30a, blake murphy wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:08:09 -0500, Goomba38 >
> wrote:
>
>>Steve Calvin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> awww, hell. I started turning grey in my 20's. I attribute it to
>>> gettin' hooked up with women. :-D
>>
>>I got my first gray hair at age 16. Thankfully it
>>was just a fluke? I tend to look younger than my
>>years alredy.
>>Goomba
>
> i had two friends at college, one of whom started to go gray, the
> other to go bald in high school. they were drinking whiskey in bars
> at age 16.
>
> your pal,
> blake
>

That's probably the reason.

Wayne