Female Smokers Are At Higher Heart Disease Risks Than Male Smokers

In today’s United Kingdom, 22 percent of men and 21 percent of women smoke cigarettes. At that, annually about 100,000 smokers die of health conditions related to tobacco smoking. According to the latest estimations based on the researches by the specialists from the University of Minnesota and Johns Hopkins University, the risks for female smokers to die from a tobacco smoking related cardiovascular diseases are much higher than the ones for male smokers. The findings of this collective study were recently published in the Lancet magazine. Read the rest of this entry »