More women getting lung cancer surgery as effects of smoking show up in new data

By Esther Han
Updated November 26 2017 - 10:35am, first published 10:34am
The tobacco industry has aggressively marketed "low" and "light tar" cigarettes to women, which are just as harmful as regular products. Photo: Tamara Voninski
The tobacco industry has aggressively marketed "low" and "light tar" cigarettes to women, which are just as harmful as regular products. Photo: Tamara Voninski

The number of women undergoing lung cancer surgery in Australia is escalating faster than that of men, reflecting the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing of feminised "slim" and "light" products in the 1980s and '90s.

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