Smoking effect on sexual health

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Smoking causes damage to virtually all aspects of human reproductive and sexual health. People are spoiling their sex life by their addiction in additional to health problems. Smoking has severe dangerous effects on men. Smoking not only causes cancer but also affects reproductive ability of women. Generally men aged between 30 – 50 turn into impotent because of smoking. There are thousands of miscarriages yearly due to smoking.

Effect of smoking on sexual health of males:

  • Smoking reduces sperm density
  • Smoking is the major cause of erectile dysfunction
  • Smoking for a long time can make a man impotent permanently

Effect of smoking on sexual health of females:

  • Smoking increases the loss of reproductive function in females.
  • It increases the risk of abortion.

Smoking can cause infertility and this can be hereditary. So smokers not only injure themselves but also their children.

A risk factor increases your chance of getting a disease. Some risk factors can be avoided, such as smoking. Other risk factors you may have no control over, such as physical problems. If you have a risk factor for erectile dysfunction that you can and do change, you may reduce your risk.