Are you a woman who smoked and have trouble getting pregnant? Then you should seriously consider quitting. According to a Dutch report published by the British science journal “Human Fertility” the snuff has a ‘devastating’ fertility.
The study was conducted among 8,500 women from twenty to forty years in the Netherlands were subject to fertility treatment. Forty percent of them were addicted to snuff and had smoked at least one cigarette per day during the previous year.
The study indicates that a single cigarette a day reduces the chances of women becoming pregnant and increases instead of having the abortion.
The researchers concluded that snuff adds ten years to women of reproductive age, which means that a smoker of thirty years has the same problems that a non-smoking at forty.
The snuff also affects children
Studies of the British Medical Association show that snuff abuse during pregnancy may adversely affect the weight of the baby.
The effects of snuff thus affecting the health of the children of smoking parents.
During its first year of life, the children of parents who smoke at home are much more likely to be hospitalized for bronchitis and pneumonia than those of nonsmoking parents.
More than 17,000 children under five are hospitalized annually in British hospitals because of snuff smoke from their parents, according to British newspaper Daily Mail. “
