(PRINTWORDS NEWS) The British Heart Foundation came up with a new study that says that the women smokers have 25 percent greater risk of heart disease than the male smokers. This study has been penned down in Online First by the Lancet medical journal where the researchers describe these findings as something alarming as women smoke lesser cigarettes than men.
This conclusion is reached after involving 2.4 million people and a meta analysis of 86 international studies, where it is clearly proved that women’s health is affected worse in smoking. This awakening research has been carried out by University of Minnesota’s Dr Rachel Huxley, Johns Hopkins University’s Dr Mark Woodward.
The study also reveals that the women smokers are prone to lung cancer double the rate of the men. At the same time, owing to smoking habit women suffer from many aggressive diseases than men. The researchers urged the Government to take necessary action against cigarette promotion.
The businessmen use many designers packaging and cigarettes and now a days these companies target women as well to attract them and generate revenue. At the same time, it has been found out that almost half of UK’s 10 million smokers are women and the decline of women smokers is less than men. The doctors found out a ratio of not smoking compared to smoking are 25 percent higher in case of a woman than a man.
Moreover, the doctors said that the risk will increase two percent each year and it means that a woman who smokes for longer time has the greater risk of heart disease than a man who has smoked for the same time.
The doctors said that the main factor of such health risk in women is because of their smaller blood vessels and smaller body weight. In a joint statement, the doctors said, “For example, women might extract a greater quantity of carcinogens and other toxic agents from the same number of cigarettes than men.
The two doctors, in their statement also added that they are worried more because these days the tobacco industry’s considers women as growth market and target them. The researchers said an estimated 15,600 women will die of lung cancer this year and the sole reason is adopting this lifestyle of smoking.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), an anti-smoking group has echoed the same messages of British Heart Foundation. The research manager of ASH, Amanda Sandford told a reputed media outlet that it is already known that women have greater risk of lung cancer than men. However, she seemed concerned when she said that for the first time, even heart disease is likely to affect women smokers more than the men.
Amanda Sandford also said that smoking has a majo5r implication on the health of the women and the government should take action against it. At the same time, she said, “The sale of designer “super slim” cigarettes is perpetuating myths such as smoking helps keep you slim and they have to go”.The President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Dr Tony Falconer said that smoking leads to all the severe diseases in a woman’s body.
He also added that smoking not only leads to lung cancer and heart disease in a woman but also it might result to premature birth, stillbirth and low-birth weight baby during her pregnancy. In the end, he said, “As doctors, we are especially concerned about the young, who are easily persuaded by advertising and peer pressure.
