A new report concerning whether smoking can cause erectile dysfunction has been published and confirms the fact. The research looked specifically at how smoking causes the erectile dysfunction and it was seen that smoking damages the blood vessels in arteries such as the penile artery that are essential for good erectile function and sex. The research that was done by Finnish scientists saw men at the age of 50 had twice as much chance of getting erectile dysfunction as men who didn’t smoke.

The exact reason as to why smoking causes erectile dysfunction is either because smoking causes the arteries to get blocked up or it could be that smoking messes around with the chemical reactions that are needed for the all important nitric oxide activity that leads to a man getting erect or it could be a mix of both factors.

In the survey done in Finland over 1350 men were studied who ranged in age from 50 years old to 80 years old. They were monitored over a period of 10 years and were asked to answer a list of questions at the beginning of the survey after 5 years and after 10 years.

The results clearly showed that men who smoked at the beginning of the survey and who suffered from vascular disease were three times more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction at some point during the survey when compared to men who didn’t smoke. It seems that the smoking causes the vascular disease and this in turn causes men to suffer from erectile dysfunction.

Ex smokers were not let off the hook as many of them also reported vascular disease and erectile dysfunction meaning that if you really care about your erectile function it pays you never to have smoked in the first place. The researcher also noted that erectile dysfunction often was diagnosed before the vascular disease meaning that the impotence was often an indicator of a more serious health problem.