Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2008-06-13
Intro: Women who smoke are no more likely to develop lung cancer than men, US researchers have concluded.
There had been conflicting evidence on women's risk, but the National Cancer Institute study of over 450,000 people found no gender difference.
The study published in Lancet Oncology found a difference of only 0.9% between the risk for men and that for women.
The most recent UK statistics show that in 2006, 23% of men and 21% of women were cigarette smokers.
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