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Given the epidemic of tobacco use in women, it is important to understand what motivates women to smoke, what effects smoking has on women's health, and what barriers women face when confronting tobacco cessation.
1 sty 2024 · Researchers in two studies (8.70%) interviewed women smokers with a chronic disease; one focussed on HIV-positive women (Kim and DeMarco, 2022), and another one on women with substance use disorders (Martinez Leal et al., 2021).
Results. The pooled prevalence of ever and current cigarette smoking in women was 28% and 17%, respectively. The pooled prevalence of ever cigarette smoking in adolescent girls/students of the school, adult women, pregnant women, and women with the disease was 23%, 27%, 32%, and 38%, respectively.
31 maj 2010 · This monograph contributes to the scientific understanding of gender, women, and tobacco in the context of efforts to control the global tobacco epidemic. Topics covered include determinants of starting to use tobacco; exposure to second-hand smoke; the impact that tobacco use has on health; addiction and cessation; treatment programmes; and ...
d Primary cancer (s) (previously or newly diagnosed) other than lung cancer. Among cases, one-fourth of women were never smokers as compared with only 2% of men; among controls, 57% of women were never smokers as compared with 25% of men (Table 2). In both sexes, current smokers comprised approximately 50% of cases and less than 30% of controls ...
4 cze 2020 · RMST analysis showed that very high smoking (>28 pack-years) has greater impact on women than men for earlier age of death (4.7 years earlier for women, 4.1 years earlier for men), and stroke (2 years earlier for women, 1.1 years earlier for men).
9 wrz 2024 · Smoking and use of tobacco products pose a serious risk of early death and disease for women. Annually, cigarette smoking kills an estimated 202,000 women each year in the U.S. 1. In 2016, 13.5% of women in the U.S. smoked, compared to 17.5% of men.2 Today, with a much smaller gap between men's and women's smoking rates than in the past, women ...
