Studies have indicated that it is the lack of accessible, affordable health care that plays an important role in these higher rates. Frequent pelvic exams and pap smears can detect early signs of cancer and save the woman's life. This makes them even less likely to go for frequent care. The most dangerous aspect of the misinformation about fat and cancer is the implication that being fat is as dangerous as smoking. Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the leading cause of lung cancer, the nation's No. 1 cancer killer.
Young women are the ones most likely to start smoking and the least likely to quit.
Well surveys show us that the leading reason women give for not quitting smoking or for resuming smoking is that they did not want to gain weight. Nicotine inhibits the natural weight set-point and artificially lowers the person's weight. So that when a person quits smoking, their weight will rise to it's natural set-point level. Just like with dieting, it may even raise beyond the previous level to compensate for the dangers of a lower body weight. What these articles seems to be telling women is that they might as well keep smoking because it would be just as dangerous if they quit smoking yet gained weight.