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Women who smoke are no more likely to develop lung cancer than men, US researchers have concluded. There had been conflicting evidence on women’s risk, but the National Cancer Institute study of over 450,000 people found no gender difference.

Lancet Oncology found a difference of only 0.9% between the risk of men and that for women. The most recent research in UK said, that in 2006 23% of men and 21% of women were cigarette smokers. Near around 30,000 people dead in a year in the UK.

The researchers analysed data on smoking habits, diet, exercise and alcohol use for 279,214 men and 184,623 women aged between 50 and 71 living in eight US states.

Men and women who smoke more than two packs per day were about 50 times more likely to develop lung cancer than people who had never smoked.

Andy McEwen, assistant director of tobacco studies at Cancer Research UK’s Health Behaviour Research Centre, said: “Smoking has a devastating effect on the health of people trapped by their tobacco addiction.

Andy said, the risk of smoker is 15 times greater than non – smokers and smoking continues to be the biggest preventable cause of death for men and women.”

Smoking accounts for the vast majority of cases of lung cancer worldwide. More has to be done to help all smokers to quit if we are to prevent future deaths from lung cancer.

Tags: lung cancer, Smoking



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