All the symptoms that spouses of heavy snorers reported two to three times as often as spouses of non-snorers represent typical manifestations of poor sleep and resulting sleep deprivation. This study concerned only women. Still, that leaves a lot of men living with women who snore. There is no reason to expect a man to suffer less sleep disturbance as a result of his wife's snoring than a woman does as a result of her husband s snoring. Moreover, obvious conclusions, even correct ones, sometimes fail to draw the attention that they should .
Many people still think of snoring as something merely funny.