Archive for June, 2009


Can Smoking Cigarettes or Marijuana Lower Your Sperm Count or Sex Drive?

Smoking cigarettes or marijuana has been known to cause a number of health problems, which may possibly include lowering your sperm count, your semen production, and even your libido (sex drive). There are hundreds of toxins in cigarettes and marijuana, many of which can cause diseases and health problems that will last a lifetime. A low sperm count will increase your chance of infertility and can have profound effects on your overall sex life, including erectile dysfunction. Men that smoke too much marijuana may find their sex drive declines very rapidly. We intend to clarify some issues between smoking and male semen production in this article.

Most people know about the variety of toxins in cigarettes - including tar, cyanide, ammonia, nicotine and many other chemicals that are known to be bad for your health. Some of the things that smoking can cause includes cancer, emphysema, asthma, and many more diseases. The second hand smoke from burning cigarettes as well as second hand exhaled smoke is well known to cause health problems in people that don’t even smoke, but are often exposed to it. These health issues are all fairly common knowledge, but did you know that cigarettes can be harmful to a mans sex drive, sperm production, fertility, and even his overall sexual performance.

Many studies have found an increased incidence of infertility, as well as decreased sperm production, in male smokers. Another relationship that some studies have found is an increased percentage of abnormal sperm, and sperm with poor motility (swimming irregularities, crooked tails, etc.). Such defects can effectively lower male fertility without even lowering sperm count, which also happens to be another unfortunate side effect of smoking. While most studies are conducted with cigarette smoke as opposed to marijuana, researchers believe that marijuana also causes many of the same problems that cigarettes do.

Besides reducing male fertility, smoking can ruin your libido and overall sexual virility. There is a link that has been found between smoking and impotence, for example. Many heavy smokers complain about weak erections and erectile difficulties. Another thing to think about is smoking before having sex might be turning your partner off if they are a non-smoker. During sex, most women don’t want to smell cigarette smoke on your breath, so make sure you don’t smell like you just lit up right before you came to bed. Smoking has also been said to make semen taste very bitter, which can lead to hurt feelings in the bedroom.

As you probably already know, smoking can be very detrimental to your overall health. Studies are finding that the complications cause by smoking also apply to sperm production, as well as your virility and libido. From the increased chance of infertility, to the higher rate of impotence, erectile dysfunction, and weak erections, cigarettes and marijuana can both be harmful to your sex life. Quitting smoking cigarettes or marijuana is not easy to do, but something that needs to be considered if you plan on having a healthy life and healthy family.

Why Marlboro are the Most Popular Cigarettes in the World?

For a moment put Marlboro, Winston or any top selling cigarettes in the back burner and think why is any photo copying machine in the world known and called as Xerox as if Xerox is the machine’s generic name? Fine, why only Marlboro does always strike to both smokers and non smokers at the mention of cigarettes? Simple, and there can be only one answer to this set of questions. Marlboro is the best selling cigarette of this world and it is so ever since. If you aren’t in agreement with me, spare a moment and search for the simple keyword ‘cheap cigarettes’ in ‘video.google.com’ for instance and I am sure you will see images of cheap Marlboro cigarettes prominently displayed. I would like to think that this is a kind of unsolicited acknowledgement for the brand, perhaps unintentional also, by a world renowned open knowledge source project.

Now for the million dollar question, why is Marlboro cigarette the most popular brand in the world? We need to get into to some historical mood and from there move on to a modern, live wire marketer’s shoes in order to understand this.

Tobacco has always enthralled humans and prehistoric human remains vindicate this fact by exhibiting traces of nicotine. Obviously the tobacco of that era can be assumed to be raw and harder than any cigarette today inclusive of cheap cigarettes. What perhaps started as chance ingestion or a part of some sacred activity has given in to sort of smoking by 15th century when Columbus rediscovered tobacco in 1492. Tobacco ruled, in patches, as ‘country money’ for sometime before taking the form of cigarettes.

Marlboro cigarettes were aptly projected and billed as women’s cigarettes around 1924 but had to make over its image in totality after the debacle during the World War II. When they are reintroduced, Marlboro was a complete new package and came riding on the new found and much romanticized popularity of the cowboy.

It is also pertinent to know why a cowboy is a hero, especially, in America and the rest of the Americanized world. Cowboy is the first hero and the much romanticized symbol of Americanism. They are always perceived and looked down upon as the pioneers of enterprising nature and fearlessness which are major reasons for what America is today. They are the ultimate men made from tougher material. Think tanks at Philip Morris had the challenge of carefully grooming this symbolic nationalism further and weave their cigarettes into it.

Switch over to Marlboro advertisements and TV commercials now. They focus on more on the virility, masculinity, the brevity with which they capture horses, glorification of their friendship etc with one hidden message that everyone should emulate them. Cowboys are strong guys and you will want to make a connection between this and hardness of the cigarettes.

And then there is this worldwide magic created by Hollywood, which, during the formative years of Marlboro from being cheap, has produced some of the history’s biggest block busters like ‘Magnificent Seven’, ‘Mc Cana’s Gold’ have immortalized the cowboy. Smoking was instantaneously equated with heroics which is evident from the 5000% jump in sales figures.

If this is a brief account of Marlboro’s success story, modern marketing blitzkrieg, exchangeable Marlboro miles or motorsport sponsorship etc, is efficiently sustaining the position for the brand. Cheap Marlboro cigarettes is another avenue open to glide over for the brand.

What is worse for the health, to drink everyday 1L of Coke or to everyday to smoke one cigarette?

To make it more precise, imagine the following experiment:

Take randomly 20,000 persons of 30 years old, and divide them into two groups (A and B). For 30 years, you force group A to drink 1L of Coke everyday while the persons in B are forced to have exactly one cigarette daily.
Which group will have a longer life expectancy? Which one would enjoy more time life?

50’s Cigarette Ad

and you thought YOU were cool…

Message From Electronic Cigarette Association President Matt Salmon

www.ecassoc.org - The Electronic Cigarette Association (ECA) is an association of private sector companies engaged in electronic cigarette technologies. Member companies are involved in all sectors of the creation and promotion of electronic cigarettes. ECAs mission is to provide the tools and information necessary for policy-makers, opinion leaders, media, and private sector companies worldwide to make informed decisions about the management and use of electronic cigarette technologies …

How do you smoke a cigarette?

I know you takw the flame near the end of the cigarette and suck on it like a straw. AFTER you fill your mouth with smoke from sucking on it like a straw, what do you do if you want the smoke in your lungs? I know you don’t inhale smoke directly into your lungs. What do I do when I’ve got a mouthful of smoke and I want it to go down my throat?

How do you fix a nonfunctional cigarette lighter?

My plug in cigarette lighter does not work so what must I do to get it to work on both a 1997 Monte Carlo and a 2004 Toyota Highlander

How to put cigarette smoke in a miniature greenhouse?

I have a science project 2 do and i want to know how i can put cigarette smoke in a miniature greenhouse without smoking or getting and putting the smoke in the greenhouse.

cyril takayama magic with a cigarette

an amazing magic trick with a cigarette. must see it!!

Mr. Bungle- Pink Cigarette Music Video

My second FAN MADE Bungle video- Pink Cigarette. www.untouchedproductions.com for full quality. Song rights belong to Warner Brothers Records.