About
62 percent of Indian women who smoke will die in their productive age
as compared to 38 percent of non-smokers, indicating that women smokers
will lose about eight years of their life, says a new study.
The
study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and
was conducted by Indian, British and Canadian scientists, said women
smokers are at a much higher risk of getting respiratory, heart and
tuberculosis diseases as compared to non-smokers.
"For both men
and women, the risks of smoking are evident even before age 50. Around
15 percent of women smokers would die in the age of 30-49, as compared
with seven percent of non-smokers," said the lead author of the study
Prabhat Jha.
"While women smoking is not as common as men
smoking, we have found that smoking by women in urban areas is on the
increase," Jha told IANS.
The study said one million smokers would die per year during the 2010s of which
700,000 would be men and 100,000 would be women.
The
study said that 20 percent of women smokers are at risk of getting
respiratory diseases as compared to seven percent who don't smoke.
"It
has been found that alcohol consumption affects women more in
comparison to men. In the same manner, tobacco affects women more.
Quitting smoking is the only way of living a long life," Jha said.
About
12 percent of women smokers are at the risk of dying of heart attack as
compared to seven percent of women non-smokers. While about nine
percent women smokers are under the threat of dying of tuberculosis,
the figure is three percent for non-smokers, the study said.
About
66 percent of men and 13 percent of women who die of tuberculosis are
smokers, said Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research
(CGHR), a research institute that is co-sponsored by St. Michael's
Hospital (Toronto) and University of Toronto.
Over half of the
tobacco deaths occur in illiterate men or women and nearly 80 percent
occur in rural areas. "Smoking does not just take away life, it takes
away many years of good life," Jha said.
"One in five of all male deaths and one in 20 of all female deaths in India
in the 30-69 age group will be caused by smoking in the 2010s," said
the report, adding that India is in the midst of a "catastrophic
epidemic".
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