In a study of 4763 Chinese men aged 35 to 74 who were free of blood vessel disease and who reported that they had been sexually active within the last six months, the researchers found a significant statistical link between the number of cigarettes smoked and the likelihood of erectile dysfunction.
Overall, men who smoked had a 41 % greater risk of erectile dysfunction than men who did not, the team reports in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
There was a clear "dose-response" relationship, meaning that the more the men smoked, the higher was the risk of erectile dysfunction. Compared with non-smoker, men who smoked up to 10 cigarettes per day had a 27 % greater likelihood of erectile dysfunction; those who smoked 11 to 20 butts a day had a 45 % greater likelihood of erectile dysfunction; and those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes daily had a 65 % greater chance of suffering erectile dysfunction.
The investigators estimate that 22.7 % of all erectile dysfunction cases among healthy Chinese men(or 11.8 million cases) might be caused by cigarettes smoking.
And even when cigarette smokers quit, their risk of developing erectile dysfunction did not decrease. The risk of erectile dysfunction was statistically about the same for former cigarette smokers as for current cigarette smokers.
Hence , why start smoking??? Emptiness?? Influenced by your friends?? It's all up to you!!!
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