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• Smoking hastens menopause 

Jump to full article: femail.co.uk, 2004-02-07
Author: BEEZY MARSH, Daily Mail

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Women who smoke are more likely to go through an early menopause, research has found.

They are also damaging their fertility and, therefore, their chances of conceiving a baby, the study shows.

It says female smokers experience the change of life more than two years earlier than non-smokers. . . .

The latest study, published in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online, points to smoking actually harming a woman's ovaries and affecting her fertility.

Doctors concerned for teenagers

Doctors are particularly concerned for large numbers of teenagers who took up smoking in the 1990s and have not quit.

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