TOBACCO USE TAKES HEAVY TOLL ON WOMEN, REPORT SAYS.(Brief Article)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Women now account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths in the United States, more than double the proportion they represented in 1965, when the first major report on the health effects of smoking was issued.

These figures are included in a report on women and smoking released March 27 by Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-two percent of adult women smoked in...

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