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Women and smoking: General

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58% of female smokers expressed concern about gaining a lot of weight if they quit

smoking, compared with 26% of male smokers.

American Journal of Public Health, September 1993, p. 1203

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Women's groups were outraged by an aborted plan to market a new brand of

cigarettes called Dakota to young, poorly educated, white women described as "virile

females" who "do what their boyfriends tell them to do." Native Americans were also

incensed at the misuse of the word Dakota, which means friend. The RJ Reynolds

brand was never introduced.

Washington Post National Weekly Edition, February 16, 1990, p. 22, JAMA,

September 26, 1990, p. 1505, and Lancet, March 3, 1990, p. 537

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The smoking prevalence in 1993 among women of reproductive age (18-44) ranged

from 31.7% in Kentucky and 32.6% in West Virginia, to a low of 14.7% in the state of

Utah.

Tobacco Control, Summer 1995, p. 172

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Smoking is a risk factor for the development of pelvic inflammatory disease in women.

American Journal of Public Health, October 1992, p. 1352

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In women who quit smoking, relapse rates are much higher for the group with the

lowest income and the least education, as well as for unmarried women.

Internal Medicine News, January 15, 1992, p. 40

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