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Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge

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Description: Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.
WOMEN, GIRLS AND TOBACCO: AN APPEAL FOR GLOBAL ACTION “Nobody can take away my cigarettes—not even if I get hurt”— America’s women’s and girls’ organizations and our public health community hereby join in an urgent appeal to the United States Congress to recognize America’s particular obligation to help protect the world’s women and girls from their growing addiction to lethal tobacco. Among the greatest health threats facing women around the globe today is tobacco use, and American tobacco companies are aggressively marketing to increase the number of women and girls who smoke, especially in developing countries. Worldwide, 47% of men smoke compared to 12% of women. But the low rates among women are changing fast. Without strong government and private sector intervention, smoking prevalence among women could triple over the next generation, the number of women smokers rising from the current 187 million to over 530 million. Some 80% of these smokers will live in the developing world, and half of them will die prematurely from tobacco-related causes.
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