90% of mortality from COPD is directly linked to smoking.
Over the past 20 to 30 years, mortality rates for COPD in women continue to increase.
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during childhood and adolescence leads to impaired lung function.
Maternal smoking leads to reduced lung function among infants.
Former women smokers have a reduced risk for dying from COPD than do current smokers.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
