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Smoking Trends & Health Issues - Women & Girls
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- Smoking Trends & Health Issues - Women & Girls
- The number of women and girls who smoke
- Trends in cigarette smoking, ages 18+, 1965-97
- The incidence of female smokers by ethnicity-1998
- The indicence of female smokers by age-1997
- Smoking rates among women 18-44 years old, by educational attainment
- Cartoon: Teens account for 85-90% of new smokers
- 3,000 kids start smoking every day
- 70.2% of American 9th to 12th graders have tried cigarettes
- Cigarette use among high school students - 1998
- Incidence of smoking among seniors by gender - 1991-1999
- Percentage of U.S. 8th graders who report cigarette use by gender - 1991-1999
- Percentage of U.S. 12th graders who report cigarette use by race - 1991-1999
- Smoking and the risk of premature death
- Teens who smoke are
- Myth: most students smoke; Fact: most don't
- Cartoon: tobacco companies target children
- Key Messages
- Smoking-related health risks, list 1 of 3
- Smoking-related health risks, list 2 of 3
- Smoking-related health risks, list 3 of 3
- 150,000 women die from illnesses related to smoking
- Tobacco use accounts for nearly one-third of all cancer deaths
- Smoking-related cancers
- Estimated cancer incidence in women by site - 2000
- Myth: breast cancer is leading cause of cancer death; Fact: lung cancer is leading cause
- Estimated cancer deaths in women by site - 2000
- 20-year trend in cancer death rates in women - 1974 - 1994; estimated 2000
- Female death rates from lung cancer - a global perspective
- Myth: lung cancer is a man's disease; Fact: incidence in women is rising rapidly
- Per capita cigarette consumption and major smoking and health events - U.S. 1990-1998
- Lung cancer epidemic - 1915-1996
- Myth: men and women equally susceptible to tobacco carcinogens; Fact: women may be more susceptible
- Differences in lung cancer survival by gender
- Increase in lung cancer mortality among U.S. women aged 55 and over 1973-74 to 1995-96
- Myth: lungs return to normal after smoking cessation; Fact: over 50% of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients are former smokers
- Myth: lung cancer is localized disease; Fact: lung cancer metastasizes early and becomes systemic requiring systemic therapy
- Myth: lung cancer is not treatable; Fact: lung cancer very treatable if diagnosed early
- Myth: quitting smoking won't help after lung cancer diagnosis; Fact: patients who quit do better than those who don't
- Key messages
- Key messages
- Key messages
- 86,000 people die from smoking-related COPD
- Risks for female smokers 35+ years of age
- Smoker's risk of heart attack
- Increased death risk for smokers who have heart attacks
- Smoking and strokes
- Risks for women who smoke and plan to have children
- Women who take birth control pills and smoke are:
- Risks of smoking during pregnancy
- SIDS associated with mother's smoking
- Secondhand cigarette smoke
- Risks of exposing an infant to second-hand smoke
- Cigar consumption in the United States 1993-1997
- Are stogies safer than cigarettes
- Cigars and young people
- Secondhand cigar smoke
- Bidi - a cigarette by any other name
- Chewing, spitting, smokeless tobacco = the "real" bite
- Smokeless tobacco vs. cigarettes
- Marijuana: totaling the risks
- Direct medical costs: consequences of smoking
- Indirect costs: consequences of smoking
- Burden of smoking on employer
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