ABSTRACT
Amidst the factors that may cause hearing impairment, one can name smoking, since studies have shown that use of tobacco might have an ototoxic effect. The aim of this revision was to analyse scientific productions regarding smoking effects on the auditory system. Methodology was composed by database research, in which national and international scientific articles, in English or Portuguese, published from 2009 to 2016, were included. After being selected and examined, the articles were classified according to their type, and characterised into five categories: database, article title, author, year and country of publication. Afterwards, the criteria used by each author in their production were evaluated, considering population sample, age span and gender. Finally, analysis of auditory tests used in smokers and exclusion criteria of each study was performed. Thus, through the published studies, it was concluded that the use of tobacco influences the onset of hearing loss, damaging mostly high frequencies hearing thresholds and neural transmission of audio information.
Keywords:
Tobacco; Hearing; Smoking