Smoking has become the latest — and most deadly — fashion statement for women, as lung cancer now kills more women in Ireland than breast cancer.
Tobacco-related diseases in women are reaching epidemic proportions here, according to the Irish Cancer Society, which yesterday launched a campaign aimed specifically at young female smokers.
Data from the National Cancer Registry shows that the number of lung cancers in women is increasing by 3% a year. From being a predominantly male disease for the past 50 years, lung cancer is projected to be a mainly female disease by 2025. And, despite decades of anti-smoking health promotion, the tobacco industry is succeeding in making smoking fashionable again, particularly among women.
Source: Dan Buckley, Irish Examiner, 21/02/2012
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