For example, smokers have increased risks of cancer of the esophagus, kidneys, and bladder, presumably from swallowed or absorbed cigarette products . Nonsmoker women should be aware of the danger from poison-spewing smokers around them. The presence of smokers , even as little as one hour a day, can almost triple a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer, the second leading cause of deaths among all American women, and the leading cause of death among middle-aged women. Exposure to an hour a day of tobacco smoke triples a woman's risk of breast cancer. Smoking 10 to 19 cigarettes a day saw the risk jump almost five fold.
More women die of breast cancer than from any other cancer.
It is now the second leading cause of death in American women. Last year doctors diagnosed cancer of the breast in 182,000 women, and 46,000 died from it. It kills more middle-age women than any other disease. But it wasn't always this way. Just 50 years ago barely one out of every 28 women got breast cancer.