dad's smoking menopause dad's smoking menopause. If men smoke when their partners are pregnant, their daughters may end up reaching menopause about a year earlier than their peers, according to a study. Previous research has found that a woman's own smoking habits, as well as those of her partner, may also have an impact on her fertility and may precipitate the point at which she can no longer get pregnant. "It seems that the effect of paternal smoking on daughters' reproductive lifespan is stronger than that of (her) husband smoking," said Misao Fukuda, at the M&K Health Institute in Ako, Japan, in an email. Fukuda said it is possible that smoke exposure around the time of conception could affect either the fertilising capacity of sperm cells or early embryo genesis -- or both. For the study, published in Fertility and Sterility, Fukuda and colleagues questioned more than 1,000 postmenopausal Japanese women who were visiting clinics for gynecologic exams....