| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 24 Women and smoking |
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| Women and smoking: General |
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| Smoking accounts each year for 25% of all deaths among American women, or about |
| 106,000 deaths each year. |
| The Harvard Guide, p. 582 |
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| A middle aged woman who smokes is three times more likely to die of coronary artery |
| disease and five times more likely to die of a stroke than a nonsmoking woman of the |
| same age. |
| The Harvard Guide, p. 582 |
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| Girls who smoke attain a lower maximal level of pulmonary function than nonsmokers. |
| NEJM, September 26, 1996, p. 936 |
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| 1999 estimated deaths from lung cancer in the U.S. women were 68,000, compared |
| to 43,400 deaths from breast cancer. |
| NBC evening news, April 12, 1999 |
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| The number of female deaths from smoking in the European Union countries |
| increased from 10,000 in 1955 to more than 110,000 in 1995. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute, February 3, 1999, p. 213 |
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| The countries with the highest female smoking prevalence (age 15 and over) are |
| Denmark (37%), Norway (35%), the Czech Republic (31%), Fiji (30.6%), and Israel |
| and Russia (30%). Countries with a female smoking prevalence of 4% or less include |
| China, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Egypt, |
| Saudi Arabia, Lesotho, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. |
| Tobacco or Health: a Global Status Report, World Health Organization, 1997 |
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