1. Can cause infertility

Smoking can reduce the fertilization ability of eggs, and the possibility of suffering from infertility is 2.7 times higher. The situation is even worse if the husband is also a smoker. Because smoking can reduce sperm volume and mobility, statistics show that smoking couples are 5.3 times more likely to be infertile than non-smoking couples.

2. Cause irregular menstruation

The nicotine in tobacco can reduce the secretion of female sex hormones and lead to irregular menstruation. Women who smoke have earlier menopausal age and earlier onset of menopausal syndrome. A survey of 1,367 women aged 18 to 44 in California found that 25% of women who smoked had irregular menstruation, while only 18.6% of non-smoking women had irregular menstruation.

Women who smoke more than one pack a day are twice as likely to have irregular menstruation than non-smoking women. Recent studies have also confirmed that smoking is also one of the risk factors for female breast cancer.

3. Smoking during pregnancy causes miscarriage

Smoking women are 10 times more likely to have miscarriage during pregnancy than non-smoking women, and the average fetal weight is reduced by 230 grams.

The mortality rate before and after birth of fetuses of mothers who smoke is also higher. If the mother smokes less than one pack a day, the mortality rate and risk of the fetus before and after birth is 20%; if the mother smokes more than one pack a day, the mortality rate is 20%; 35%. In addition, babies born to mothers who smoke are twice as likely to have congenital heart disease.

4. Smoking affects the intelligence and development of children

Smoking by pregnant women has adverse effects on the intelligence and physical development of their children. Children will have some psychological and physiological problems during preschool years. After entering school, their reading and calculation skills are worse than those of children of non-smoking women, and their height is also lower than that of children of non-smoking women.

5. Effect on beauty

Smoking women’s skin looks older, more wrinkled, and grayer than non-smoking women. In particular, the wrinkles on the upper and lower lips and corners of the mouth increased significantly.

6. Reduce breast milk secretion

Smoking can reduce breast milk secretion, and nicotine can also enter breast milk with the blood. Women who smoke 10-20 cigarettes a day can extract 0.4-0.5 mg of nicotine in 1 kg of breast milk. This is a serious threat to the baby's health.

7. Susceptibility to stroke

Women who smoke 1-4 cigarettes a day are more than twice as likely to suffer from stroke than non-smoking women. Those who smoked more than 5 cigarettes were more than 5 times larger.

8. Susceptible to cancer

Smoking women are 40% more likely to develop breast cancer than non-smoking women, cervical cancer is 14 times more likely to develop than non-smoking women, and ovarian cancer is 14 times more likely to occur than non-smoking women. 28 times more dangerous.

9. Susceptibility to AIDS

Mainly manifested in the impact of smoking on the immune system. Smoking can significantly reduce activated immune cells CD4 and lymphocytes. Smoking can affect the vagina, cervix and immune system, reducing immunity. Therefore, smokers are more likely to develop AIDS than non-smokers under the same circumstances.

All data show that smoking causes greater physical harm to women than to men.