In addition to causing heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, smoking can also affect male virility. Not only erectile dysfunction or impotence, cigarettes were also able to shorten the size of the penis.
The findings are based on the results of a study conducted by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine on 200 male participants were smokers. From the research, the average smoker had penile shortening of 1 cm.
"This is the largest-ever study of smoking-related sensitivity of sex," says Dr. Pedram Salimpour, one of the researchers, as reported by the Guardian, Friday (08/27/2010).
According to Dr. Salimpour, the negative influence of smoking on the penis as well as the influence of smoking on the heart. This is damage to blood vessels, which makes blood flow obstructed.
Basically this is the effect of elastin, the protein of connective tissue are elastic and allows tissues in the body to get back into shape after stretching or contraction. In this case, elastin affects the ability of penile erection.
Dr. Salimpour explains, elastin that can stretch like rubber. This is what happens to the penis as a result of increased blood flow.
Smoking can damage the body's ability to do that, so that it can affect the size of the penis and erectile ability. But researchers could not determine how many cigarettes can damage elastin and shorten the penis size.
"It still requires further study, but it looks like the dangers of cigarettes are more susceptible to the penis rather than the heart," explains Dr. Salimpour.
According to him, this was due to existing blood vessels in the penis is much smaller than the vein in the liver. Existing blood vessels in the liver measuring 1.5 mm, while the penile blood vessels 1 mm or smaller sized exactly 0.5 mm.
Not only the active smokers, Dr. Salimpour also explained that there is a possibility that the same thing could happen to passive smokers. But it still requires further study.
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