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Cigarette smoke includes number of substances that have negative effects on male reproductive system and cause to male infertility. In this research, we investigated the effect of cigarette smoking on sperm parameters in fertile and infertile men (n = 200). Semen analysis was performed according to the World Health Organization guidelines to obtain volume, pH, vitality, sperm concentration, motility, morphology and seminal plasma fructose concentration (World Health Organization, 2000). Sperm concentration was determined with a Neubauer® counting chamber. Motility was expressed as the percentage of motile spermatozoa into 4 categories (immotile, flagella, slow and rapid). Morphology was determined according to the WHO criteria using the Papanicolaou staining procedure. At least 300 cells were examined at a final magnification of 1000x. Our research showed that sperm parameters quality in smoker men was lower than nonsmoker men (p < 0.01). Therefore, it appears that cigarette smoking is associated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]