Research from Switzerland has shown that women are more susceptible to tobacco carcinogens than men. 683 lung cancer patients were studied between 2000 and 2005. They found that younger women developed cancer more readily despite smoking less than men who developed lung cancer. These results increase the awareness that women who smoke have a greater risk than men who smoke. Lung cancer was rare in women in early 1900s, but since 1960s it has become the number one cause of cancer deaths of American women. On a positive note, other research has found that women were more inclined to improve than men after taking out lung tumors in surgery. Source: Women's Health News. May 2009.
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