Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths with women. Female smokers that are thirty-five years old and up are more than ten times likely to die from emphysema or chronic bronchitis than non-smoking females. Americans are starting to smoke at a younger age, especially females. Pregnant smokers have higher rates of miscarriage, stillbirths, and babies who are born early. Most of these babies die from crib death soon after birth. Female death rates from smoking-related lung diseases are fast approaching male smoking death rates.
Smoking is the number one cause of cancer deaths for men. Current malesmokers that are over thirty-five years of age are almost ten times more likely to die of lung disease and twenty-two times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smoking males.
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| Youths start smoking when they're very young and this one is ten years old |
At least 3.1 million adolescents and 25 percent of seventeen and eighteen year-olds are current smokers. 80 to 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before they're twenty. Tabacco is often the first drug used by young people who go on to use alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs.
 | A small child helps the other child smoke |