Cervical Cancer
Educating women about disease link to smoking persuades more to quit
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 8th, 2004
Since women who smoke have double the chance of developing cervical cancer compared to nonsmokers, persuading them to quit can have a significant impact on their health, suggested Sue Hall, PhD, and her colleagues at Guy's, King's, & St. Thomas School of Medicine in London, U.K.
Their study appeared in the December 2003 issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
The researchers divided 172 women smokers into three groups. A control group received no special information. A second...
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