Annotated Bibliography 3

Tara Link

English 1010

Haley Stokes

April 1

Annotated Bibliography 3

Windham, Gayle, Patrick Mitchell, Meredith Anderson, Bill Lasely, and . "Cigarette Smoking and Effects on Hormone Function in Premenopausal Women.." Environmental Health Perspectives . 113.10 (2005): 1285. Print.

SUMMARY

Cigarettes contain compounds that are suspected to cause reproductive problems and possible affect hormone activity. Cigarette smoke contains known reproductive toxicants, and smoking has been associated with adverse reproductive outcomes in women such as infertility. Smokers have different menstrual cycles than those of non smokers. Wanted to know if smoking may exert some of its deleterious effects via an endocrine mechanism. They are interested in measuring whether estrogen excretion appeared reduced and identifying at what level such an effect may occur. Smokers are less likely to have a college education. Compared with non smokers, smokers are less educated, more likely to be of another race other than asian or white, drank more alcohol, caffeinated beverages, and are more likely to get pregnant and smoke while pregnant.

REFLECTION

It was all really interesting, and I learned that smoking affects your bowel movements, and urine, as well as women’s menstrual periods. If a women is trying to get pregnant and she’s a smoker she could have a harder time getting pregnant than a women who is a non smoker. Also that smoking effects your estrogen levels. Smoking while pregnant also has hormone effects on the baby, and people who smoke are usually of different races not white or asian. Asians not being a main race of smoking doesn’t really surprise me, but white people does surprise me, I thought for sure there would be more white people as smokers, than other races. It doesn’t surprise me that smokers are less educated, and more likely to drink more alcohol.