Women smokers face greater heart risk Global Post 8/11/11

The cigarette industry is eager to market cigarettes to young women in developing countries, even though an August 2011 analysis of data on four million people concluded that female smokers are at greater risk of heart disease.

Dr Rachel Huxley from the University of Minnesota and Dr Mark Woodward from Johns Hopkins University concluded that the risk of heart disease linked to smoking was 25 percent higher for women.  Women smokers already have double the risk of lung cancer, compared to men.

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