While studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm count in male children a new research showed that men whose fathers smoked at the time of pregnancy also had 50 per cent lower count of sperms than those with non-smoking fathers. The findings showed that independently of nicotine exposure from the mother socioeconomic factors and their own smoking men with fathers who smoked had a 41 per cent lower sperm concentration and 51 per cent fewer sperm count than those with non-smoking fathers. I was very surprised that regardless of the mother's level of exposure to nicotine