According to the latest research published by British scientists, although cigarettes often appear in advertisements as a synonym for "masculinity", smoking actually increases the risk of male impotence.
Dr Christopher Millet, the head of the study and the Imperial College of London, said: "Men who smoke are 40% more likely to suffer from impotence than non-smoking men." The more cigarettes they smoke, the more likely this problem will occur. Of course, even for men who smoke less than 20 cigarettes a day, the risk of impotence will increase by 24% compared with non-smokers.
1. The group with the lowest age of smokers (40 years old) has the highest risk of ED, and the probability of ED is almost three times higher than that of other age groups. Smoking can cause impotence, which is also related to age.
2. Male smokers aged 50 to 60 are prone to impotence.
3. However, 70-year-old male smokers are not prone to impotence.
8000 Australian men aged 16 to 59 took the health survey. Nearly one in ten said that such sexual dysfunction continued for more than one month in the past year. Of the smokers who accounted for one quarter of the total number of respondents, 6% smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day. People who smoke more than one pack or more a day are 39% more likely to experience sexual dysfunction than non-smokers.
There is new evidence that smoking is harmful to men's sexual life. A new study found that smoking increases the risk of male impotence, especially for young men.
"Not only older men will suffer from impotence, but also young people will be affected," Millett said in an article published in the British journal Tobacco Control. "For many years, cigarettes have been used as a symbol of male masculinity in advertisements, just like men in Marlboro cigarette advertisements. In fact, smoking is the main cause of impotence, and the latter is an early sign of coronary heart disease.
(Intern editor: Cai Junyi)