London: Women who smoke are far more likely to be killed by their habit today than in the 1960s when it raised a woman's fatality from lung cancer 2.7 times, says a study.
Researchers say the period 2000 to 2010 saw women at a 25-fold higher level of risk than in the 1960s. The increased risk offsets advances in medicine that have cut death rates among the majority of the people over the last 50 years.
A similar trend holds true for deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), another smoking-related condition, the New England Journal of Medicine reports.
