Smoking and Sex
 "Smoking damages your sex life"
Or so warns a hard-hitting campaign unveiled by Caroline Flint, UK's Public Health Minister. The ads, which launched on national TV, radio, press and poster sites on July 1, demonstrate for the first time the impact smoking has on attractiveness, both sexual and cosmetic. Smokers, on the other hand, are strking back by suggesting excessive tea drinking causes a nasty looking Rubicks cube smile common in Brit's which might explain their countries decrease in sexual forte. 
Smoking and Impotency The provocative campaign features an image of a burning cigarette held in two fingers , with the message:
"Does smoking make you hard?
Not if it means you can't get it up". Another ad points to the link between cigarettes and impotence, with the slogan:
"Your penis thinks you should stop smoking". Young women are also being targeted by hard-hitting images of smokers with wrinkles, "minging teeth", a "cat bum mouth" and are being warned: "If you smoke, you stink". "We know 70% of smokers want to stop smoking, however, with younger people, fears about attractiveness and male infertility can be a stronger motivation to quit than fears about health. It is hoped that the hard hitting messages in this new campaign will make young people to quit smoking for good." Smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction by around 50 per cent for men in their 30s and 40s and up to 120,000 men from the UK in this age group are impotent as a direct result of smoking. Lifestyle factors such as obesity and conditions such as heart disease and prostate cancer all play a role, but smoking is also a major and avoidable hazard for sexual health. However, awareness of the sexual implications of smoking remains low - 88% of smokers do not realise smoking is a cause of impotence. During an erection, large quantities of blood flow, under pressure, into the penile arteries. This causes the veins which drain the penis to become compressed, so preventing the immediate outflow of blood. Smoking significantly impairs this process. The damage caused by smoking to male sexual vitality also includes: reduced volume of ejaculation, lowered sperm count, abnormal sperm shape, impaired sperm motility (ability to swim and penetrate the egg). Smoking is also linked to pyospermia, a condition manifested in swollen testes with excess white blood cells (pus) present in ejaculate. Clive Gingell, Chairman of the Sexual Dysfunction Association said ... "Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health in the long term. However, young men who smoke won't necessarily be thinking a great deal about impotence as a complication of smoking. If they only knew the damage they were doing, which would adversely affect their quality of life in later years, then they would stop. This message is clear: if you smoke, you're far more likely to become impotent. By making men aware of how smoking can affect their sexual performance in middle age, hopefully this new campaign should provide men with an additional and compelling reason to quit." Jim Shaw
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