Cigarette smoking hurts women more than men

By April Clarkson, April 19th, 2013 | Health | 0 Comments

We all know that smoking cigarettes is not healthy for anyone, men or women. There is now more research that believes women are more susceptible to the lung-damaging effects from cigarette smoking than men are.

A study has been presented at the American Thoracic Society that stated that women develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after just a few years of smoking and also at an earlier age than man. Researchers in Norway have recently studied 954 women and men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung infection, both that were caused by smoking cigarettes. The results of this study showed no difference in gender in the total of men and women with ailments, but it did show that the women were younger and had smoked much less than the men had.

The women who had developed pulmonary disease before they had reached 60 had a larger loss of lung function than the men who were in the same age group. The same is found to be true for the women who had been smoking for 20 years or less, compared to men with the same low cigarette exposure.