Sperm count 50 percent lower in sons of fathers who smoke

Monday, November 26, 2018 - 12:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm counts in male offspring. Now a research team has discovered that, independently of nicotine exposure from the mother, men whose fathers smoked at the time of pregnancy had half as many sperm as those with non-smoking fathers.

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