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| | Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| | Pregnancy and fertility: Fertility and Menopause |
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| | Infertility is two to three times more prevalent in women who smoke. |
| | The Tobacco Epidemic, p. 95 |
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| | Ovulation does not occur normally in smokers, impairing a woman's ability to |
| | conceive. |
| | Cigarettes, p. 83 |
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| | The fertility rates of women who smoke are about 30% lower than those of |
| | nonsmokers, and smokers are about 3.4 times more likely to take more than a year to |
| | conceive than are nonsmokers. |
| | New York Times, October 25, 1996, p. A39 |
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| | "Cigarette smoking...seems to alter fallopian tube function, which in turn seems to |
| | destroy eggs and impair the density, movement, and shape of sperm." |
| | The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Karen Carlson, Harvard University Press, |
| | 1996, p. 322 |
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