| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| Pregnancy and fertility: Fertility and Menopause |
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| Infertility is two to three times more prevalent in women who smoke. |
| The Tobacco Epidemic, p. 95 |
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| Ovulation does not occur normally in smokers, impairing a woman's ability to |
| conceive. |
| Cigarettes, p. 83 |
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| The fertility rates of women who smoke are about 30% lower than those of |
| nonsmokers, and smokers are about 3.4 times more likely to take more than a year to |
| conceive than are nonsmokers. |
| New York Times, October 25, 1996, p. A39 |
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| "Cigarette smoking...seems to alter fallopian tube function, which in turn seems to |
| destroy eggs and impair the density, movement, and shape of sperm." |
| The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Karen Carlson, Harvard University Press, |
| 1996, p. 322 |
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