Smoking Ladies

Females have more effects due to smoking than males. Females can suffer from childlessness due to smoking. A recent study demonstrated that female smokers have double chances of childlessness than non-smoking females. Smoking decreases the number of oocytes (eggs) in female reproductive internal organ. An experiment was done on animals, which showed that nicotine was the main cause of decrease in oocytes.



Smoking women witness abnormal functioning of fallopian tubes, which carry eggs from ovary to the uterus. Smoking disturbs the physiological levels of reproductive hormones, increases the pelvic inflammatory disease and reduces embryo implantation. Babies born to smoking females develop ectopia problems. The rate of respiratory diseases increases in babies of females, who smoke. Sudden death of babies after the delivery is mostly a scenario with the smoking females.Heart disease is the most common cause of death among females.

Smoking is the main cause of the heart diseases. Heart diseases take more lives of females every year than all other types of cancer combined. Smoking increases the blood pressure, which causes strokes. Every year in the United States, about 160,000 deaths are due to strokes and out of them 100,000 were females. Strokes not only lead to death, but may also make the person permanently disabled. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is another disorder seen in smoking females.Studies indicate that women are more susceptible to the harmful effects of smoking than males.

This studies report that respiratory disorders, deteriorating health, reproductive disorders and lung diseases are more in smoking females, than smoking males. The female teenager of a smoking parent has a higher chance to develop asthma, bronchial diseases at the early age of 18. Globally, cigarette smoking is the main cause of respiratory diseases, reduced lung function and lower grade of Self-Rated Health (SRH). Female smokers have larger reduction in expiratory lung function, than male smokers.