For women, the attraction of smoking may be the perception of equality. Over the past 50 years smoking has been marketed toward women. About 19 percent of U.S. women smoke compared to 23 percent of ...

Women who quit smoking before age 40 reduce their risk of dying by nearly 90 percent; those who quit before age 30 can remove up to 97 percent of the risk of premature death, according to researchers ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

TORONTO – Women who smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day – or even less – have a significantly higher risk of sudden cardiac death than those who never smoked, researchers say. But butting out for ...

Women who smoke are no more likely to develop lung cancer than men who smoke. Women who have never smoked, however, do seem to be at higher risk of developing the cancer than men who have never smoked ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...