Teens with drinking problems were 18 to 21 times more likely to have been sexually abused than other teens and 6 to 12 times more likely to have been physically abused, according to researchers at the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center. The study by the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit involved 1,000 adults aged 21 to 30 years, and was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers said people appeared to be predisposed both to depression and smoking. Both social environment and personality factors may be involved. Several earlier studies have found links between depression and smoking.
Lung cancer is the leading cancer that kills women.
Some 67,000 women die each year of lung cancer compared with 43,500 breast cancer deaths. Smoking appears to raise a woman s risk of developing lung cancer by as much as 1,000 percent, according to the New York Times .