Smoking-related deaths among women have more than doubled since 1965. Lung   cancer in women has increased an estimated 600 percent since 1950now surpassing   breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Since 1980, nearly   three million U.S. women have died prema-turely from smoking, and women account   for 39 percent of all smoking-related deaths each year. These were findings   presented in 

Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General-2001

,   released in March. The full report is on the CDC's web site: 