See also:

• Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco  (251)
• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Cancer: Lung  (44)

• ACS: Women and Smoking - Features information and details about the increased risk for women to develop various cancers.
• Good Housekeeping: Women and Lung Cancer - Lung cancer is catching up with more and more women. The disease, which is fatal for 86 percent of its victims within five years of a diagnosis, is now the leading cause of cancer death among women.
• Lung Cancer and Women - FAQ answers questions like: how common is long cancer in women? Can I develop lung cancer if I don't smoke? What is my risk for lung cancer if I smoke?
• Lung Cancer in US Women: A Contemporary Epidemic - Medical journal summarizes the current situation.
• Lung Cancer Risk Greater for Women - Women who smoke the same amount as men are twice as likely to get lung cancer.
• NCI: Women and Smoking - A fact sheet that describes how smoking increases a woman's risk of cancer and other health problems. Includes ways to stop.
• Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Women with Lung Cancer - Recent research finds that tobacco smoke exposure that causes lung cancer includes both personal smoking and secondhand smoke.
• Tobacco Product Carcinogens Cause More Damage to Women - Recent research confirms that cigarettes cause more lung cancer in women.
• Vital Statistics: Women and Lung Cancer - From article in Washington Post, 10-27-1998.
• We Don't Have the Right to Remain Silent - "Law and Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson speaks about lung cancer awareness, after the death of two close friends to the disease.

• Lung Cancer Death Rate Surges Among Women - Years of attention paid to young women by tobacco marketers have yielded gruesome dividends, researchers said. (April 16, 2003)
• Women in Study More Susceptible to Lung Cancer - A report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute gives weight to an unproven theory that women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer+causing substances in tobacco smoke. (December 1, 1999)