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Young Women Least Likely to Quit Smoking [03/15-3]
Excerpts from: Anti-smoking crusade lost on young women
By ANNA PATTY The Daily Telegraph [03/15/04]
Young women are well aware of the life-threatening effects of smoking but are the least likely to quit, data will show this week.
In NSW, smoking-related hospitalisations have increased by 11 per cent for females and 4 per cent for males, according to data from the latest NSW chief health officer's report.
With a quarter of girls aged 14 to 19 taking up the habit, young Australian women are more likely to smoke than young men.
Every year, 6000 Australian women die prematurely from smoking-related diseases. Only 15 per cent of women with lung cancer are still alive five years after diagnosis.
But young women aren't heeding this message, despite being in the demographic group most likely to be aware of it.
Research by the Australian Lung Foundation to be released this week shows young Australians are the group most aware of smoking's lethal effects yet the least likely to quit.
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