Smoking Tobacco May Harm People’s Chances of Getting Pregnant, Says WHO
The agency said cigarette smoking may roughly halve successful pregnancy outcomes and linked vaping, hookah and smokeless tobacco to fertility risks.
- On Tuesday, the World Health Organization released a summary linking tobacco use to increased infertility risks for both men and women, noting smoking may negatively impact pregnancy chances.
- Affecting one in six people globally, infertility is defined by the WHO as failing to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse, establishing the context for tobacco's documented impact.
- A review of 44 studies involving more than 60,000 men linked smoking to reproductive dysfunction, while earlier research from 21 studies connected cigarette smoking to fewer live births and pregnancies after IVF.
- Emerging evidence suggests nicotine products like vapes are linked to a 20% drop in fertility, and second-hand smoke exposure elevates risks while cigarette smoking may reduce fertility treatment success by roughly half.
- Dr. Kerstin Schotte, Medical Officer with the WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative, said quitting can make "a meaningful difference," noting women who stop smoking may have a 25 per cent lower risk of infertility.
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According to the report consulted by franceinfo, women who quit smoking have a risk of infertility of less than 25% compared to smokers.
Smoking can reduce the chances of both women and men to breed and can also reduce the success rate of certain fertility treatments, the risk being 40% higher among female smokers compared to those who do not have this habit, said the World Health Organization on Tuesday ...
In addition, passive smoking can affect fertility, which means that people do not need to be smokers to face possible reproductive risks, the United Nations agency stressed for public health.
Smoking seriously reduces the chances of having children. It is the conclusion of the World Health Organization (WHO) after carrying out a review of the scientific evidence obtained so far. Among its conclusions, made public on Tuesday, the body emphasizes that women smokers have 40% more risk of infertility than those who do not smoke, while in the case of men smoking is associated with alterations of reproductive function, including abnormalit…
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The World Health Organization warns of increased infertility as one of the risks associated with smoking, which can affect both women and men.
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