The risk of dying of lung cancer is 20 times higher among women who smoke two or more packs of cigarettes a day than among women who do not smoke.
Women are just as prone to develop lung cancer from smoking as men.
Those who quit have a lower risk for developing lung cancer than do current smokers. Risk declines with the number of years of smoking cessation.
In 1987, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the most lethal cause of cancer death among women.
Age-adjusted incidence rates for lung cancer appeared to peak during the mid-1990s.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
