Lung Cancer Strikes More Women
Doubled the rate of female mortality from lung cancer
In men, however, began to fall. Are data from the Ministry of Health of the Nation. Contemplate the past 30 years. The advertising of cigarettes with actresses and models in past decades would be one of the causes of these new indices.
Thirty years ago, cigarette smoking was for some women a symbol of women’s liberation. Unfortunately, this perception was a sad consequence: the death rate from lung cancer in women has doubled in Argentina during the last three decades.
Is that the consumption of snuff, including “light” represents the leading cause of lung cancer, a disease rarely develops in women prior to their mass entry into the labor market and the hype that was given to from the sixties.
According to the registration of vital statistics of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, in 1980 there were 5 deaths of women from lung cancer per 100,000 inhabitants. In contrast, in 2007 occurred 10 cases per 100,000, an increase that caused the lung will become the second leading cause of cancer death in women, colon cancer passing.
The mortality rate increased especially in the central region and Patagonia.
In contrast, in males the death rate from lung cancer decreased from 42 cases per 100,000 population in 1980 to 30 cases per 100,000 in 2007. Males reached the maximum level of consumption of snuff for some time, and that produced the reduction of cancer mortality.
“Increased mortality in women in Argentina is consistent with an increase in snuff consumption by women,” he told Clarin Adriana Blanco, regional advisor snuff control for the Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC in EE. UU. “Lung cancer develops between 20 and 30 years after the first use of snuff.
Therefore, the increase in snuff-dependent disease appears 20 or 30 years after the increase in prevalence, “he said. “True, there are more new cases of female lung cancer and more deaths. 70% late diagnosis, “he said Gonzalo Recondo, chief of oncology at Cemic.
There were different factors that led to increased consumption of cigarettes and its implications for women’s health.
“The tobacco industry cigarette advertised as a way to gain equality with men, but it was a lie that made women become slaves to cigarettes,” said Gabriela Regueira, coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Women Control by Snuff. According to Blanco, “the tobacco industry needs to expand its market in order to replace smokers who die and those who leave the snuff. For this, focused its aggressive advertising to young people and women, especially in countries where even the regulation of advertising is scarce, “and exemplified the case of Argentina.
“You’ve come a long way, baby,” the popular slogan of a notice of the only brand that was sold exclusively to the female sector. According to White, the tobacco industry cigarettes associated with values ??that are significant for women as liberation, independence, the glamor and stay thin. The women were gaining economic independence, which allowed them to pay for cigarettes, and was expanded social permissiveness. Today, 26% of adult women are smokers. Three decades ago, the age of onset of smoking was at 25 years (male to 17). Today, women begin at age 14 (they, to 15). And you smoke more than men. What will the future? “It will increase lung cancer and other diseases if no action is taken Blanco said. The good news is that there are measures that can be taken as the implementation of the Framework Convention for the control of snuff: you can stop this epidemic