In recent years it has taken the lives of as many men as have tumors of the colon, rectum, prostate, pancreas and stomach combined. In women, as of 1995, it has surpassed the death rate caused by breast cancer.
Between the 1960's and the 1980's, lung cancer deaths in women increased from 26 per 100,000 to 155 per 100,000 in the USA. The death rate, among men who smoke, nearly doubled from 187 per 100,000 to 341 per 100,000.
Surprisingly, equality among the sexes (now that it is socially acceptable for women to smoke) appears to have a disadvantage.
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