Cigarettes, Cigars, Hookahs or Shisha, Pipe, Chewing tobacco and
Snuff are of the most common forms of tobacco intake. Throughout history,
smoking was viewed as something done by men, but women around the world are now
becoming active consumers. This is especially true for developing countries, as
their tobacco intake greatly exceeds that of developed nations.
According to Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking
is the most preventable cause of early death in the world. In fact, it’s estimated
that American women who smoke die fifteen years earlier compared to
non-smokers.Studies have also illustrated that more than 1 in 6 American women,
18 years of age and older, smoke cigarettes. The likelihood of smokers according
to their culture is shown in descending peak rates: Native women from Alaska followed by
multi-racial women, white women, black women, Hispanics and Asian women being
the least likely group.
Education is a key factor in the probability of a woman becoming a smoker,
as non educated women or one with a low education is twice as likely to smoke
than an educated woman would. Age is another influential factor since smoking is
more popular among the younger age group, especially for high school teen girls,
than older women between the ages of 25 to 44.
As these younger women continue smoking well into adulthood, they increase
their risk in having smoking-related health problems and diseases such as
cancer and heart disease. In 2009, the International Agency for Research
on Cancer stated the need for more research to be undertaken to further understand
the link between smoking and breast cancer. It has been shown though that chemicals
in tobacco smoke does reach breast tissue and are found in breast milk which is
clearly not a healthy occurrence.
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