Time catches up with women who started smoking in 80s

Original article by Harriet Alexander
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 5 : 17-Oct-14

Lung cancer rates are rising in Australia, particularly among women. David Currow, CEO of the Cancer Institute of New South Wales, explains that there is a 30-year lag between smoking rates and lung cancer rates. The current rise in lung cancer rates reflects an increase in the number of smokers in the early 1980s. At that time, women started to smoke in significant numbers

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