Smoking
Bad For Sexual
& Reproductive Health
A comprehensive
report by the British Medical Association provided research
from the US Surgeon General and the World Health Organization-
Smoking
is implicated in malignant cervical cancer and miscarriages
Lighting up regularly increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth
and sudden infant death syndrome.
Women who smoke have 3x higher risk of having low-weight babies
-- which puts the babies at risk for coronary heart disease
and diabetes later in life.
Smoking during pregnancy can lead to fetal malformations like
cleft palate, as well as less-well known problems like placental
complications and a decrease in the amount and quality of breast
milk.
Lighting up can interfere with your sex hormones and put you
at risk of painful and irregular periods and possibly early
menopause.
If you take oral contraceptives and smoke, you're 20x more likely
to suffer blood clots which can lead to heart attack or stroke.
Male smokers
have lower sperm counts and a higher proportion of damaged sperm.
The
Holistic Wisdom Corporation