CIGARETTE-SMOKING AND SPERM QUALITY

The effect of cigarette smoking on conventional semen parameters (volume, total sperm count, sperm count/ml, total motility, progressive motility, morphology) was studied retrospectively in 90 healthy patients (50 non-smokers, 40 smokers) of our infertility clinic. Both groups, comparable in age, height and weight, were subdivided into two age groups (< 28 years, greater-than-or-equal-to 28 years). Smokers were found to have sperm volumes significantly smaller than non-smokers of the same age. No additional effects on sperm parameters were found. Cigarette smoking revealed no detrimental effect on spermatogenesis.