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1. Women are three times more likely to die from lung cancer than breast cancer. (Reuters Health -June 2000)
2. Lung cancer rates among women more than doubled from 1974 to 1994. (Women and Lung Cancer, Washington Post Health, Oct. 1998)
3. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. (Health After 50, Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Nov. 1997)
4. Women smokers lose bladder control (develop incontinence) at twice the rate of nonsmokers. (Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., in Parade magazine, June 27, 1999)
5. Women smokers age more quickly; physiologically their bodies are eight years older than women nonsmokers of the same age. (ASH Review, Jan./Feb. 1995)
6. Women smokers have a five times greater risk of developing genital warts than women nonsmokers. (Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reuters Health, March 1997)
7. Women’s smoking has been linked to reduced birth rates for their babies, severe PMS and early menopause. (Smoking Worse for Women, Health Notes, Consumer Reports on Health, June 2001)
8. Women smokers are at much higher risk than men smokers for strokes, heart attacks and lung cancer. (Smoking Worse for Women, Health Notes, Consumer Reports on Health, June 2001)
9. Women smokers are more likely than men smokers to develop bladder cancer (Study suggests women smokers at higher risk for bladder cancer). (AP) HealthCentral.com - April 2001)
10. Women smokers on average die 14 years earlier than women non-smokers. (Surgeon General warns of smoking peril to US women, Reuters, HealthCentral.com - April 2001)
11. Women are specifically targeted by the tobacco industry, which dedicates more than $8 billion annually to advertising their products. (Surgeon General warns of smoking peril to US women, Reuters, HealthCentral.com - April 2001)
12. Women smokers develop early-onset rheumatoid arthritis at twice the rate of women non-smokers. (Smoking heightens women’s arthritis risk, Reuters Health, healthcentral.com - Nov. 2000)
13. Women who smoke will develop osteoporosis at twice the rate of women non-smokers. (Healthy Living, McCall’s, April 2000)
14. Women who smoke will develop cervical cancer at four times the rate of women non-smokers. (Smoking particularly dangerous for women, Reuters Health, healthcentral.com - Nov. 2000)

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