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Excerpts from: Women more vulnerable to smoking than men

By Susan Aldridge, PhD HealthandAge (Novartis Foundation for Gerontology) [06/02/03]

Tobacco smoking seems to cause more respiratory symptoms among women than men, researchers say. A team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology studied a group of nearly 11,000 people aged between 20 and 97 years, who were either randomly selected or had reported symptoms of asthma. . .
One reason for this may be that women have smaller airways which may be more likely to be affected by cigarette smoke.