For the sake of health and beauty must stay away from tobacco smoking harmful to health has become a consensus, but when people talk about smoking damage to health more focus on men, the reason is based on people’s minds men are the main group of people smoking. China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of tobacco, smoking rate of more than 37%, statistics show that 350 million smokers in China, the world’s first, 30 million are addicted to female smokers, female smokers are also increasing at a rate of 10% per year, many women believe that smoking is a manifestation of the status, the pursuit of fashion, that smoking is more elegant, fashionable, more with the charm of a successful woman. However, the “fashionable” female smokers ignore the hazards of smoking, due to the special physiological conditions of women, the hazards of smoking for women far beyond the hazards of smoking for men, cigarettes have become the biggest killer of contemporary women’s health and beauty. The Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Guang’anmen Hospital gynecology department Wu Xianghong So what harm does smoking do to women? First, reduce immunity Smoking will reduce the body’s immune function, so that the activation of immune cells and lymphocytes significantly reduce the immunity of the reproductive tract, which can increase the risk of viral infections, gynecological inflammation and tumors, it is reported that the prevalence of breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer in smoking women is more than 20 times that of non-smoking women. Second, early menopause Some studies have shown that certain components of cigarette smoke are toxic to follicles, leading to the early disappearance of follicles, smoking before the age of 17, or smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for more than 20 years, the probability of menopause before the age of 40 than non-smokers of the same age increased by 2 to 3 times. Smoking is a risk factor for ovarian failure, the nicotine inhaled after the burning of cigarettes, the decomposition of the body can affect the production of estrogen, the body of smokers to reduce estrogen secretion, smoking for a long time, a large number of smokers into the early menopause. Third, affect the appearance of smokers’ teeth stained with soot color, it is difficult to fade, nicotine affects the absorption of human collagen, coupled with the long-term lack of oxygen caused by smoking, lips and eye corners are prone to premature wrinkles, rough and dry skin, the loss of elasticity and rich appearance, prematurely appear some signs of aging. Smoking also causes blood flow disorders, capillary atrophy, resulting in dark circles and pores, making women look older. Fourth, leading to female infertility From a clinical point of view, smoking will have adverse effects on female reproductive function, sexual function, endocrine and other aspects, increasing the risk of infertility. Clinical research shows that direct smoking and secondhand smoke is 2.7 times more likely to suffer from infertility than non-smokers. Smoking can also seriously impair a woman’s reproductive function and reduce her chances of conceiving. If both men and women smoke at the same time, then women’s conception rate will be even lower V. Dysmenorrhea and infertility Because smoking can cause vasoconstriction, which narrows blood vessels and slows blood flow, it also reduces blood flow to the endometrium and causes menstrual irregularities or pain. The fertilization rate of eggs in women who smoke is greatly reduced. Women who smoke are 2.7 times more likely to suffer from infertility compared to non-smoking women. American researchers have found that smokers are 72% less fertile than nonsmokers. The situation is even worse if the husband also smokes, and statistics show that couples who smoke are 5.3 times more likely to be infertile than non-smoking couples. Sixth, osteoporosis research shows that smokers bone weight index than nonsmokers on average 5% to 10% lower, and bone density every 10% lower, bone strength is reduced by 30%, as long as the bone density in 10 years by 10%, then cause the incidence of femoral neck fracture increased by 44%. Women who smoke have weaker bones in old age and are more likely to have fractures. Harvard Medical School research shows that: women after menopause with estrogen supplementation treatment, if still smoking, may reduce the protective effect of estrogen therapy. Seven, affect the next generation women of childbearing age smoking or passive smoking can damage reproductive health, such as pregnancy complications, premature fetal birth and infant death and other symptoms. 90% of pregnant women who passively inhaled secondhand smoke in the uterine amniotic fluid can be detected nicotine and other harmful substances, indicating that tobacco smoke on the fetal growth of the uterine environment directly caused by pollution. Smoking or secondhand smoke inhalation is an important risk factor for the development of hyperemesis and pregnancy complications in pregnant women. Pregnant women are greatly endangered by tobacco. Most of the harmful chemicals released when tobacco is burned can pass through the placenta and affect the proliferation and differentiation of embryonic cells, leading to abnormal embryonic development, manifested in the developmental disorders of the nervous system and intrauterine growth retardation. Smoking can cause narrowing of blood vessels, slowing down blood flow, reducing the concentration of oxygen in the pregnant woman’s body and providing less nutrition to the fetus, which can easily lead to fetal malnutrition or premature birth. Pay attention to the harm caused by female smoking, we should take various measures to control and prevent female smoking in response to the factors that affect female smoking, and we should spare non-smoking women from the suffering of second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke, and try to achieve smoke-free families, smoke-free cities, and smoke-free countries.