Smoking damages all aspects of sexual health - PhillyBlog

SteveJohnston · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 11:33 AM

Smoking damages all aspects of sexual health
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...health_smoking

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LONDON (AFP) - Smoking causes damage to virtually all aspects of human reproductive and sexual health and makes women around 40-percent less likely to become pregnant, British scientists warned.

The study by the British Medical Association (BMA) said that apart from the better-known risks of tobacco, such as cancer and heart disease, an estimated 120,000 British men aged 30 to 50 were impotent due to smoking.

Smoking and passive smoking are linked to about 3,000 to 5,000 miscarriages in the country every year, researchers said in the report, entitled "Smoking and Reproductive Life".

Smoking was implicated in around 1,200 cases of cervical cancer every year, the report said.

Additionally, women who smoked while pregnant were three times more likely to have a low birth-weight baby and suffer a greater risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and foetal malformations.

The damage continued into childhood, it added, saying that more than 17,000 British under-fives were admitted to hospitals each year because of passive smoking.

The scale of the damage caused to sexual health was "shocking", said Dr Vivienne Nathanson from the BMA.

"Men and women who think they might want children one day should bin cigarettes," she said.

"Men who want to continue to enjoy sex should forget about lighting up, given the strong evidence that smoking is a major cause of male sexual impotence."

Any smokers out there?

brooke · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 11:36 AM

Eating red meat lowers your testosterone as well.

Not a smoker...have to save all my funds for alcohol.

Chaosmonaut · #3 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 11:54 AM

Can you link to some documentation re: meat and testosterone? This is the opposite of what I've read, and based on what I have read, soy products are a serious concern in that regard. In fact, I think that ten years from now, soy foods are going to be seen in a very different, and negative, light (in the mainstream) than they are currently.

gbh · #4 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 11:59 AM

james bond smoked. case closed.

brooke · #5 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:00 PM

James Bond smoked pole.

brooke · #6 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Chaosmonaut

Can you link to some documentation re: meat and testosterone? This is the opposite of what I've read, and based on what I have read, soy products are a serious concern in that regard. In fact, I think that ten years from now, soy foods are going to be seen in a very different, and negative, light (in the mainstream) than they are currently.

Whoops, I was wrong. Let me then change my statement to "vegetarians taste better."

gbh · #7 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:03 PM

i don't know whether to laugh or cry over the pain you have just inflicted. i need a cigarette.

SteveJohnston · #8 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:08 PM

Brooke raises...a good question: What about smoked meats?

eldondre · #9 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:10 PM

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Let me then change my statement to "vegetarians taste better."

having dated a vegetarian...that statement is also suspect.

brooke · #10 (**permalink**) 02-11-2004, 12:12 PM

Ah Steve...I've brought you to...the dark side.

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