WOMEN are more likely than men to get hooked on cigarettes, an analysis of
more than 22,000 US smokers has revealed. This may help explain last week’s grim
news that lung cancer now kills more women in Britain than breast cancer.
The latest study, by Denise Kandel and her colleagues at the New York State
Psychiatric Institute, showed that women become dependent on nicotine more
easily than men do. The upshot is that women are quicker to pick up the habit of
smoking—and find it harder to quit.
“If you compare men and women for the same dose of nicotine, women report…
