Do women who smoke like men die like men?

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 10:56 in Health & Medicine

Barcelona, Spain, 30 August 2009: Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did. But, because so many men have now quit, male death rates from smoking are decreasing in many European countries where female death rates from smoking are still increasing.

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