Smoking may pose a bigger health risk to women than men, says a new study from researchers in Norway. For the study, researchers reviewed health records for 600,000 women, finding the women were especially susceptible to developing bowel cancer linked with smoking.
Women who smoked in the study were, in fact, twice as likely to develop bowel cancer than men. Overall 4,000 participants developed bowel cancer and those women who began smoking at age 16 or younger and women who smoked for many years were both at the increased risks of developing the condition.
"It's well established that smoking causes at least 14 different types of cancer, including bowel cancer," researchers wrote in their study report. "For men and women, the evidence is clear - being a non-smoker means you're less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, lung disease and many other serious illnesses."
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