Impotence is 85 Percent Higher in Male Smokers Than Non-Smokers

Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED).

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of the plant of genus Necotiana .In consumption it is mostly used in the form of smoking, chewing, snuffing or dipping.

The use of tobacco is an activity that is practiced by some 1.1 billion people worldwide.

According to research, tobacco leads to diseases of the lungs, hearts and even early heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive and pulmonary diseases, particularly lung cancer, cancers of larynx and mouth.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), estimates that tobacco causes 5.4 million deaths per year and 100 million year over the cause of 20th century.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe tobacco as ?the single most preventable risk to human health in developed countries' and an important cause of pre-mature death worldwide.

Tobacco also contains nicotine, which is highly addictive, psychoactive chemical; when nicotine is smoked over a long period it creates physical and psychological dependency.

Tobacco is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers; it contributes to a number of other threats of health of the foetus such as pre-mature births and low birth rates and increases by 1.4 times the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Scientific study done in neonatal rats seems to indicate that exposure to cigarette smoking in the womb may reduce fatal brain's ability to recognize hypoxic condition, thus increasing the chance of accidental asphyxiation.

As of the year 2000, smoking was practiced by 1.22 billion people, and it has been predicted that 1.45 billion will smoke in 2010 and from 1.5 to 1.9 billion in 2025.

The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally from which 5.4 million are tobacco attributed and 4.9 million as of 2007,70% of deaths are the in the developing countries.

Smoke or any partially burnt organic matter is carcinogenic(cancer causing),the damage a continuing smoker does to his/her lungs can take up to 20 years before its physical manifestation in lung cancer.Male and female smokers lose an average of 13.2 and 14.5 years of life respectively.

Second hand smoking is a mixture of smoke from the burning ends of a cigarette, pipes or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers, it is involuntarily exhaled , lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished.

source: allafrica