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Jump to full article: Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 2001-03-27
Intro: • Cigarette smoking plays a major role in the mortality of U.S. women. Since 1980, when the Surgeon General's Report on Women and Smoking was released, about three million women have died prematurely of smoking-related diseases.
• In 1997, about 165,000 U.S. women died of smoking-related diseases, including lung and other cancers, heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung diseases such as emphysema. . .
• Infants born to women who are exposed to ETS during pregnancy may have a small decrement in birth weight and a slightly increased risk for intrauterine growth retardation.
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