Young women are now smoking more than young men

By Esther Han
Updated December 9 2017 - 9:43am, first published November 27 2017 - 1:24pm

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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