Women, Cigarettes and Lung Cancer Women, Cigarettes and Lung Cancer Cigarette ads aimed at women may make smoking seem glamorous. But what they don't say is that women face greater risks from smoking than men.
Smoking is bad for everyone.
It leads to lung cancer and heart disease. But women especially have something to fear, according to a recent report from Pittsburgh. Researchers there found that a gene that appears to be linked to lung cancer is more active in women than in men. One reason is that this gene is found on the X chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes, while men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.