Why It's Important to Quit
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Mortality Among Women Smokers Cigarette smoking plays a major role in the mortality of U.S. women. Since 1980, when the Surgeon General's Report on Women and Smoking was released, about three million women have died prematurely of smoking-related diseases.
In 1997, about 165,000 U.S. women died of smoking-related diseases, including lung and other cancers, heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung diseases such as emphysema.
Each year throughout the 1990s, about 2.1 million years of the potential life of U.S. women were lost prematurely because of smoking-attributable diseases. Women smokers who die of a smoking-related disease lose on average 14 years of potential life.
Women who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk of dying prematurely. The relative benefits of smoking cessation are greater when women stop smoking at younger ages, but smoking cessation is beneficial at all ages.
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