Health Risks Faced By Women Who Smoke Tabacco.

women and smoking

the Surgeon General Highlights the Health Impact of Smoking Among U.S. Women and Girls

Women make up Thirty nine percent of all smoking-related deaths every year in the United States.

This percentage has more than doubled since 1965, according to a report on women and smoking released by the Surgeon General. The report concludes that the increased likelihood of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive health problems among women smokers makes tobacco use a serious women’s health issue.

The ever increasing advertising by tobacco companies has halted the progress of smoking cessation programs by women, and recent increases in smoking among teenage girls threatens to negate any progress that has already been made in the last 30 years, he said.
Women and Smoking: A Report from the Surgeon General summarizes the patterns of tobacco use among women, factors associated with starting and continuing to smoke, the health consequences of smoking, tobacco marketing that is targeted at women, and cessation and prevention strategies.

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"Smoking is now a critical women's health issue that must be addressed on all fronts," HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said. "We must begin this fight in our schools before girls even begin to smoke, and we must share with teenage girls the knowledge that smoking is not only harmful, but it is not glamorous or cool. Society must not glorify smoking."

Since 1980, nearly three million U.S. women have died prematurely because of smoking. This new report calls for much stronger national and local efforts, particularly from women’s interest groups, to push for the implementation of proven solutions to reduce and prevent tobacco use among women and girls.

The report calls for increasing public awareness about the devastating effect of smoking on women’s health; exposing and countering the tobacco industry’s specific targeting of women; encouraging public health policymakers, medical professionals, educators and women’s groups to work for policies and programs that deglamorize and discourage the use of tobacco; reducing disparities related to tobacco use and its health effects among different ethnic and racial populations; lowering nonsmokers’ exposure to environmental or passive tobacco smoke; and mounting comprehensive statewide tobacco control programs proven to be effective in reducing and preventing the use of tobacco.

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