According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, smoking pot more than once a week can lower sperm count by a third, and if combined with other recreational drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, it can fall to more than half.
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Study Says Quitting Smoking Can Reduce Hot Flashes in Menopausal Women
Health researchers have recently discerned that women of a particular age who choose to give up smoking can actually get the added benefit of experience fewer hot flashes if they succeed.
Mother’s Smoking May Affect Girls’ Lifetime Reproductive Health
Girls whose mothers smoked while pregnant entered puberty at a younger age in a new Australian study. Since early menstruation is linked to higher risk of uterine, endometrial and breast cancers later in life, the researchers say that maternal smoking could set up daughters for health problems even before they’re born.
Are Common Chemicals Associated with Earlier Onset of Menopause?
A study of a representative sample of US women shows a clinically significant association between early menopause and exposure to 15 different endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) commonly found in personal care products, plastics, and packaging. The magnitude of the effect, the researchers said, was greater than that documented for smoking on menopause but they caution that their results do not establish cause and effect.
Smoking While Pregnant or Breastfeeding Endangers Boys’ Fertility by Damaging Their Sperm
Australian scientists have found smoking while pregnant or breastfeeding damages unborn boys’ reproductive organs, causing them to produce faulty sperm
Quit Smoking And Slouching: 6 Surprising Health Problems That May Be Killing Your Sex Drive
To have optimal sex performance at any time and any place, avoid these six bad health habits from poor posture to smoking, which can silently kill your sex drive.
HPV Causes a Growing Number of Oral Cancers
Health officials say the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, a known cause of cervical cancer, has surpassed smoking and alcohol use to become the leading cause of head and neck cancers in the U.S., particularly among men.
Omega-3s May Lead to Healthier Babies
Pregnant women who took daily supplements of DHA, a type of omega-3 fatty acid, had longer gestations, bigger babies and fewer early preterm births, according to a new clinical trial.
In the double-blinded study, published online in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers randomly assigned 154 healthy women to take 600 milligrams of DHA during the last half of pregnancy and 147 to take a placebo.
After adjusting for maternal education, socioeconomic status, prior pregnancy, smoking and other risk factors, they found that babies whose mothers took supplements were almost a half pound heavier than those of the mothers who took none, and they were slightly longer with larger head circumferences.
Almost 5 percent of mothers who took the placebo gave birth at 34 weeks’ gestation or less, compared with only 0.6 percent of the mothers who took DHA. Read full article.
Couples Who Smoke Banned from IVF by NHS Fife – Scotland
NHS Fife has been criticised for refusing IVF treatment to couples who smoke.
The health board said it would no longer provide treatment to couples if either of them smoked, or if doctors considered the woman to be overweight.
The charity Infertility Network said the health board had acted too quickly before new national guidelines on IVF were published at the end of the year.
The new rules come in to effect on 1 October 2012. Read full article.