WASHINGTON – More women are lighting up cigarettes around the world even as the smoking rate declines for ... much as it did in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Greaves, executive director ...

More women are lighting up cigarettes around the world even as the smoking rate declines for men ... much as it did in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Greaves, executive director of the British ...

Lung cancers in men fell, and CRUK say this is linked to smoking rates. The proportion of male smokers peaked before 1960. But women had rising rates in the 1960s and 1970s, which would have an ...

And now, in a macabre twist on equal opportunity, a new study out of the U.S. Surgeon General’s office shows women’s death rates from smoking-related cancer have drawn nearly even with men’s.

That is partly because they are starting younger and smoking more than women used to. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)(Julio Cortez - AP) U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying ...