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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| | Pregnancy and fertility: Fertility and Menopause |
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| | Nicotine is toxic to sperm, and reduces its ability to penetrate eggs by 12 to 16 |
| | percent. Nicotine lowers the sperm count, causes sperm to clump together, reduces |
| | sperm swimming ability and causes it to grow in abnormal shapes. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 1991, p. A4 |
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| | Two studies reported in the March 1998 issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility show |
| | that men who smoke have poorer quality and more structurally abnormal sperm, and |
| | that smoking might inhibit fertility. |
| | American Medical News, April 27, 1998 |
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| | Male smokers have lower levels of testosterone, a reduced volume of semen |
| | ejaculated with decreased sperm production and lower sperm count, an impairment of |
| | sperm motility and movement, a higher percentage of sperm with abnormal |
| | morphology or shape, and an increase in the number of white blood cells in the sperm, |
| | or pyospermia. |
| | Cigarettes, pp. 96-97 |
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| | In men in fertility clinics, cigarette smoking is associated with significant decreases in |
| | sperm penetration assay scores and with increased numbers of seminal fluid white |
| | blood cells. |
| | Journal of Urology, October 1990, p. 900 |
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| | In a study from the Czech Republic, male teenage smokers had sperm damage and |
| | significant evidence of chromosomal damage that could cause genetic abnormalities |
| | in their children. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1998, p. A2 |
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