the more you smoke the less you poke

Practically everybody is aware now that smoking massively increases the chances of suffering from impotence, but not that many people know that this includes shisha smoking too. Just because shisha doesn't have so much nicotine and tar does not mean that regular Shisha pipe smoking is safe. 

In fact according to many doctors in the Middle East where Shisha pipe smoking is prevalent the erectile dysfunction rates are noticeably higher among Shisha pipe smokers. The fact that the smoke is bubbled through water somehow convinces some men that the smoke is safer but in fact all the water does is cool down the smoke and does not purify it from the harmful toxins and chemicals. It is also possible to inhale a greater quantity of smoke through a Shisha pipe than it is from a cigarette. 

According to Dr J. King, a sex therapist while Shisha smoking might be pleasurable it would almost definitely reduce pleasure in the bedroom. It is a statistically verifiable fact that men who smoke suffer from higher rates of erectile dysfunction than those who don't. In fact Dr King referred to smoking as "sexual suicide".

Many countries in the Middle East, especially Dubai and Egypt have over the last couple of years made a special effort to get their citizens to quit smoking. Because the majority of smokers are men they have concentrated on antismoking adverts which highlight the link between smoking and erectile dysfunction. Anecdotal evidence given to us by doctors at Ukmedix News tells us that men who are told to quit smoking because of the impact it will have on their erectile functions are much more likely to make the effort to quit than those who are told about other more serious health problems that smoking brings on.

In Egypt the Ministry of Health put out advertisements showing a drooping cigarette with the slogan "long term smoking will affect marital relations" but it is likely that many men would not connect this to Shisha smoking but only to cigarette smoking.

Probably the best way of putting it according to Dr King is "the more you smoke the less you poke".