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Cancer: A Growing Number Of Smoking Women

13 July 2009 8 Comments

Smoking kills more women in to cancer then the airway accidents. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the number of women at a cancer of the lungs, the bronchi, the larynx or trachea are dying in the past 20 years nearly doubled the mortality increased from 6367 in 1987 to 12 599 in year 2007. For men, the deaths recorded in the period is around eight percent to 30 406 victims have gone back.

The reason for the significant increase of the female victim, according to the statisticians that the women in the context of emancipation in the past decades, have more access to cigarettes. This was always more socially accepted. The number of smoking women has increased, so also increase the diseases.

In 2007 total of 43 005 people Died with cancer of the respiratory tract, which is 657 more than the year before. Based on per 100 000 inhabitants died in 2007, 52 people in the lungs, bronchial, larynx or trachea cancer. In regional comparison, the mortality rates in Saarland and Saxony-Anhalt, at 76 and 66 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants at its highest. In Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria died with both 39 per 100 000 inhabitants on the other hand, the lowest number of nationwide people.

While the average age of death for women due to smoking in 2007 was around 80 years,. Even when men age mortality declined from 73 to 70 years.

According to statistics, the English in 2008 smoked 240 million cigarettes a day, or 141 million less than it did in 2000.

On the other hand, the consumption of cigars and cigarillos in the same period has doubled to 14 million units per day. Moreover, the daily consumption of fine cut tobacco from 35 tonnes to 60 tonnes and the consumption of pipe tobacco increased from two tonnes to five tonnes per day.

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