(June 3, 2015 at 1:08 pm)emjay Wrote:(June 3, 2015 at 12:03 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: In that case, the worst of it will come much later for you. But before you have a long, drawn-out death from heart disease or cancer, you can look forward to a greatly increased chance of impotence. (You can do an online search for "smoking impotence" without the quotation marks and see for yourself.)
Is the taste of cigarettes better than having good sex?
End of sermon.
It's your life, live it how you want. But make sure it is what you want.
I'm 34 and I've smoked since I was 15. it's really started affecting my health in the last couple of years, including something similar to what you're talking about - not impotence (yet) but something similar and not guaranteed to be caused by the smoking but thought highly probable. Personally I think I'll be lucky to see 40 but I just can't quit
Basically, anything that is bad for your cardiovascular system is not good for sex. A man needs to have good blood flow to the penis to get and maintain an erection. So anything that interferes with that is mucking up your sex life.
For women, the situation is different. A woman can still have sex. But it very likely reduces a woman's ability to experience orgasms.
People very often have a mistaken idea that doing unhealthy things simply lessens the length of one's life. But it actually affects the quality of one's life before one dies. It is rather more like aging faster than normal, not eliminating the decline from age. One declines prematurely with an unhealthy lifestyle. If what you want is a high quality of life as long as possible, but without the decline of age, you need to live a fairly healthy lifestyle and then commit suicide before you get old. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to be killed accidentally, like by being run over by a bus.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
