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Lung Cancer   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  I chose to do lung cancer in American women because of the fact that many women die from it every year. Women put themselves in danger by risking the chances of a premature death and other types of complications from smoking. In this report I want to learn whom smoking effected more, men or women, what age bracket does smoking most occur in women, and the overall effects that smoking and lung cancer has on women.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Lung cancer is caused by development of airway obstruction, and clinical symptoms leading to chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) as well as to recurrent respiratory tract infections (Klech H, Kummer F., â€Å"Smoking causes chronic obstructive lung diseases and increased infections of the respiratory tract†, Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, Journal Code: XOU, 1994; [144 (22-23): 535-40]). The death rate of lung cancer has increase since 1991-1995 up to about 64%. Lung cancer is hard to detect at an early stage and it is also hard to treat. Many doctors sat that once you are diagnosed with lung the average person has about 5 more years to live. Smoking is the main cause for lung cancer in women. Over 2,000 females start this habit everyday which is about 728,000 women a year. Out of this amount of ladies 66,000 will die from lung cancer. The worst thing about this lung cancer in women is that no one believes that it is the leading killer in women. That is right it passed breast cancer by a long shot. Lung cancer killed about 66 thousand, as mentioned above, while breast cancer killed only about 45 thousand people (Statistics are from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Facts which contains estimates based on SEER data.) .  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  What age do you think women start smoking? 18? 20? 16? No, some â€Å"children† have started smoking at the age younger then 14 (Skaar, Karyn L.; Tsoh, Janice Y.; McClure, Jennifer B.; Cinciripini, Paul M.; Friedman, Karen; Wetter, David W.; Gritz, Ellen R., â€Å"Smoking: A Feminist Issue† (An overview of research. Smoking Cessation, part 1. Vol. 23, Behavioral Medicine), 03-22-1997 [p. 5 (9)]). They mainly start to smoke do to its â€Å"pleasant† appeal. During many research studies, the most common reasons were to stay slim, lose weight, or be popular (Heidi D, â€Å"Smoking: A Feminist Issue†. Vol. 20, Contemporary Women's Issues Collection, [03-01-1995, p. 9-10H]). Magazines give women and teenage girls these impressions everyday by their ads of big groups of skinny ladies have a good time with a â€Å"dag† in their mouth.