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Study Finds Smoking, Breast Cancer Link
New research offers evidence for a long-suspected link between smoking and breast cancer; the connection seems especially pronounced for teenage smokers.
Health Promoters Worried About Girls Smoking
Among the issues of concern at the United Nations Special Session on Children is an increase in the number of girls smoking around the world. Tobacco companies say they’re not recruiting under-age smokers, but critics believe otherwise.
Women Bear Brunt of Suffering Caused by Angola War
A treaty ended Angola’s civil war last month, yet women are still struggling to feed themselves and their families. In the nation’s capital, 70 percent of residents are unemployed and many women enter the informal market, selling even themselves.
Campaign Begins to Urge Pregnant Smokers to Quit
Women who smoke during pregnancy leave themselves and their infants open to a wide range of health problems. Now a new campaign hopes to educate women smokers about the risks and get them to quit.
Prime-Time Family Hour Is Least Diverse
A new study of the six TV networks finds the “family hour,” starting at 8 p.m., is the least racially diverse. The universe on prime-time television is one dominated by 30-year-old single, white men who are good looking, intelligent and desirable.
Sex Bias in Citizenship Law Challenged
Challenging one of the few remaining gender-based federal statutes, women’s advocates urged the Supreme Court to overturn the law that makes it harder for fathers to transmit citizenship to their foreign-born children than it does for mothers.
Women Find Tobacco Addiction Intense
One doctor who smokes and treats heroin and cocaine users says the addictions are very similar. Experts say that to quit, women need to use every strategy available, ranging from support groups to nicotine replacement drugs. Second of two articles.
Seeing Through Smoke Screen: Women at Higher Risk
Women have come a long way as far as the intensity of tobacco advertising targeted at them, especially teen-agers. Now, lung cancer kills more women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancer combined. First of a two part-series.
