Smoking kills 114,000 people per year in the UK and a growing proportion of these are women. The risks taken by
women in smoking are many fold and are well documented. Of these 114,000 deaths, over 42,000 of them are women.As a group, 23% of all adult women are considered to be regular smokers compared with 26% of adult men. However, at secondary school age, more girls smoke than boys, at a rate of 26% to 16% respectively. Arguably this is because of the false belief that smoking helps weight loss and or slimming. As teenage girls are more susceptible to the social pressure of looking slim, this may well be a promoting factor in the higher prevalence of female smokers
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