Women Have Caught Up With Men in Risk of Dying Because Of Smoking-Related Illness

Women's Lung Cancer Rate Almost The Same As Men's.  CBS News. January 23, 2013.

Women are starting smoking earlier and smoking longer.  Lung cancer rates are still rising for women while they reached their peak for men in the 1980s.  Among the many findings in this report was that smoking shaves more than 10 years off the average life span.  Deep inhalation in order to take advantage of the reduced level of nicotine in cigarettes is consistent with the type of lung damage found in rising diseases.  Citing a "massive failure of prevention" experts are concerned about the massive number of smokers in China and India.