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Women physically or sexually abused as children more likely to smoke.
2004 MAY 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women survivors of childhood abuse are 40% more likely to become smokers than women who have not been abused, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
And women who experienced both physical and sexual abuse before the age of 11 were 3.5 times as likely to become smokers as women who had not been abused, the study showed.
H.B. Nichols, Harvard School of Public Health, and B.L. Harlow, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, based their findings on 722 women between 36 and 45, who completed a questionnaire on interpersonal relationships as part of a larger Harvard study on serious depression and the menopause.
Just over one in four (26%) of the women said they had been abused as a child. Most had been physically abused; 3% had been both physically and sexually abused. One in six women said they had lived in fear of being abused as a child.
Risk factors for abuse included poverty, coming from a working class family, and religion.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women physically or sexually abused as children more likely to smoke.