We all know that smoking is bad for your health.

But health experts believe smoking and impotence go hand-in-hand. Smoking is considered to be a leading cause of impotence.

Impotence (or erectile dysfunction) is defined as the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse, and includes the inability to get an erection as a result of sexual stimulation or to lose your erection prior to ejaculation.

Impotence does not generally include other symptoms such as lack of libido, inability to ejaculate or the inability to achieve orgasm.

Medical authorities and anti-smoking lobby groups are attempting to use the results from recent studies linking smoking and impotence to not only encourage older men to give up, but to also prevent younger men from taking up the habit.

It's been suggested that if a media campaign about smoking and impotence was launched to present the results of the clinical studies to men, perhaps becoming impotent may be seen as a greater threat than contracting lung cancer.

They suggest that a different approach should be taken to the medical warnings on cigarette packets regarding smoking and impotence. Rather than "smoking kills", the warnings should read "smoking causes impotence!"

As Dr John Spangler, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center pointed out:

"Informing men who smoke of the exceptionally high possibility of developing [impotence] erectile dysfunction may motivate many to quit their tobacco habit."

Dr Spangler said that cigarette smoking and impotence had been linked by previous investigations, including finding what doctors refer to as a "dose response relationship" - in other words, the more cigarettes smoked per day, the greater the chance of impotence.

Clinical studies conducted on humans and animals have confirmed that smoking inhibits the ability to achieve a full erection. Cigarette smoking hardens arteries (atherosclerosis), which affects blood flow, and over time prevents the blood vessels in the penis from being able to engorge with blood and produce an erection.

Smoking also leads to long-term damage to the nervous system, which in turn leads to impotence.

Dr Spangler went on to say:

"A smoking history should be obtained from all patients, especially those who report [impotence] erectile dysfunction.

Informing men who smoke about the exceptionally high likelihood of developing [impotence] erectile dysfunction should become a standard part of care of these patients."

Smoking and impotence not only threaten physical health, these two factors can also have a devastating impact on the pyschological health of men who smoke and who have impotence.

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