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Researchers inform smokers, who suffer from bad premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms, to throw the cigarettes away. According to a study, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, was found that women aged 27 to 44 years who smoke are likely to get premenstrual syndrome. These women can have such symptoms: backaches, bloating, acne and tenderness of the breasts.

Researchers also found that women who were current smokers had 2.1 times the probability of reporting the development of PMS in the next 2 to 4 years, as compared to their non-smoking compatriots. But the main finding of this study was that the more one smoked, the greater is the risk of developing such symptoms.

Dr. Elizabeth R Bertone-Johnson, said: "Our findings lend further support to the idea that smoking increases the risk of moderate to severe PMS, and provides another reason for women, especially adolescents and young women, not to smoke."

Higher risk to getting the PMS symptoms has ladies who started smoking during adolescence or young adulthood. For example, those who picked up smoking before turning 15 had 2.53 times the likelihood of getting PMS.

Dr. Bertone-Johnson said also that they found that women, who start smoking at younger ages, smoke for more years than those starting when they are older. This is very important information for women who started to smoke when they were youngster. Additional research on the impact of smoking at different times in women's lives is always needed.

PMS symptoms are not very well understood by the medical community, although many believe that the role of hormones play the main role in this symptoms. And smoking have been shown to affect certain hormone levels, increasing in this way the risk of moderate to severe PMS.