Gender Neutral: Men, women face same cancer risk from smoking
By Nathan Seppa
Over the past decade, the scientific community has turned up conflicting evidence regarding whether cigarettes impart a greater risk of lung cancer to women than to men. In the largest comparison to date, researchers now report that the sexes share a roughly equal risk of developing the cancer from smoking.
The scientists also analyzed data from six other studies and arrived at the same conclusion. The findings appear in the June 2 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.