Smoking Trends & Health Issues - Women & Girls

 
 
 

An estimated 67,600 women will die in 2000 year from lung cancer, largely attributable to smoking. In addition tobacco use is the major risk factor for cancers of the cervix, mouth, throat, esophagus, kidney, pancreas, and bladder.1

1 Tobacco Use, CDC Office on Smoking and Health, 1997.