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      • Equality in smoking and disease, nobody wins!

      • Nearly 20 million women and girls in the United States smoke cigarettes.

      • During the sixties and seventies tobacco companies targeted women.

      • Women who smoke are more likely to die from C.O.P.D. than men who smoke.

      • Women over age 35 who smoke have a slightly higher risk of dying from heart disease than men who smoke.

      • More than 200,000 women die every year from smoking-related disease compared with 270,000 men who die from smoking-related disease every year.

      Source: The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014.

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