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"When they hear about it, a lot of men are more motivated to stop smoking."

Susan Henderson, a tobacco control officer with the World Health Organization's China office, saying men who think puffing away on cigarettes makes them look more attractive to women might be more likely to encounter a more difficult time in bed. A 2007 study found that smokers are 1.41 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction than nonsmokers. It is estimated that 22 percent of China's ED cases are related to smoking. More than half of Chinese men above the age of 15 smoke, according to WHO and the Health Ministry statistics, placing the country eighth on a list of 120 countries and regions surveyed by the WHO in 2010.