Tobacco: an equal-opportunity killer?

Recently, the 'Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer' has reported that lung cancer death rates among women have begun decreasing for the first time in four decades. 19 Incidence rates of lung cancer in women are also approaching a plateau after a long period of increase. Sin...

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Published in:Tobacco control 2011-07, Vol.20 (4), p.251-252
Main Authors: Curry, Laurel E, Vallone, Donna M, Cartwright, Julia, Healton, Cheryl G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti smoking movements
Cancer
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cigarette smoking
Cigarettes
Editorial
Female
Females
Gender differences
Health risk assessment
Humans
Lung cancer
Lung neoplasms
Male
Men
Mens health
Mortality
Public health
Secondhand smoke
Smoking
Smoking - mortality
Smoking cessation
Smoking-caused disease
Studies
Tobacco
Tobacco smoke
Women
Womens health
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Summary:Recently, the 'Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer' has reported that lung cancer death rates among women have begun decreasing for the first time in four decades. 19 Incidence rates of lung cancer in women are also approaching a plateau after a long period of increase. Since women took up cigarette smoking later than men in the last century, the decline in lung cancer death rates comes a decade later than a similar drop in lung cancer deaths among men.
ISSN:0964-4563
1468-3318
DOI:10.1136/tc.2011.044479