It didn't have much information on the effects of smoking and women, Thompson noted, because few such studies had been conducted. Lung cancer kills nearly 68,000 women each year in the country, the report notes. Some 165,000 women died prematurely from smoking-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease in 1999. In Washington, about 3,000 women die every year because of tobacco-related health problems, according to the state Health Department. There's one simple message from all the research that's been conducted the past 15 years on how to stop smoking, Thompson said.
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