Is it true that smoking menthol cigarettes can make you sterile ? Alot of my friends say that everytime i smoke menthol cigarrettes. Is there any medical proof to answer my question ?
Well, I don’t have a medical source for this, although maybe someone who does will come along. But, for what it’s worth, I think common sense can pretty much answer your question.
If menthol cigarettes made people sterile, there wouldn’t be much of a market for condoms, contraceptive foam and/or diaphragms, IUDs, birth control pills, Norplants, vasectomies, tubal litigations, etc.
Third world countries with serious overpopulation problems would be passing out menthol cigarettes like candy and beads at a Mardi Gras parade.
Maybe smoking in general lowers your sperm count, but it must not be by much because my dad was a 3-pack-a-day smoker and sired seven kids.
I posted this before, but it ended up in the wrong thread. Here goes nothing:
Snopes has covered this before. Their conclusion: “Menthol cigarettes are no worse for you than any other type. Mind you, that’s not exactly heartening news.”
AAARGH! What a missed opportunity!
biblio, I saw your post in the other thread and assumed it was a mistake (wrong thread). Just think, if I’d clicked on it and seen what it was about, I could have stolen your thunder, posted the link here, and looked smarter than I actually am!
Drat!
Your friend got it wrong. It’s not that menthol cigs make you sterile, it’s that smoking in general can cause impotence.