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Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of developing cervical cancer, a new study found. The data are especially crucial to women living in the developing nations, where smoking is on the rise.
From cosmetics counters in luxury department stores to subways where performance art was carried out in secret, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence made all the world its stage.
Big Tobacco is baiting young female smokers with fruit-flavored cigarettes. That’s why the bill to ban flavor additives to cigarettes–now in congressional debate–deserves prompt support.
With her own sex-assault experience in mind, our commentator looks at the year’s most celebrated rape accusation. Lorraine Dusky concludes the ordeal that Kobe Bryant’s accuser suffered sows doubt about any rape victim’s chances in U.S. courts.
John Edwards’ strong pro-choice record, along with his favorable voting record on women’s wage and health legislation, makes his choice as running mate to John Kerry popular among many women’s groups.
Advocates of Maria Suarez, a battered woman wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years in California, are pushing to reform state laws they say are more punitive toward women. They also want to change social attitudes about domestic violence.
Stress urinary incontinence–an all-too-common problem among women–is often assumed to be an inevitable part of aging. But the condition can be treated with a range of therapies, and by no means affects older women exclusively.
Tobacco companies are using images of women who are prosperous, hip and liberated to get more women in the developing world to start smoking, according to a new report.
Despite laws to protect young people from tobacco marketing, powerful pro-smoking signals are reaching teens–and perhaps female teens in particular–through the loophole of Hollywood movies, in which glamorous stars are smoking more.
New studies suggest that women may be at a greater risk to develop diseases as a result of smoking than are men. The evidence also shows that it may be more difficult for women to quit smoking.