Women Light Up

Talking about anti-smoking advertising campaigns, even as rates decline for men, worldwide more women are taking up smoking and activists blame tobacco-company marketing in the developing world.
According to a International Network of Women Against Tobacco report based on World Health Organisation data and released on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at a conference sponsored by the American Cancer Society, 12 percent of women worldwide smoke, and that figure is tipped to rise to 20 percent by 2025. International Network of Women Against Tobacco