And now I can't quit. Now after seven years of smoking there is no fun left. But it's too late. I can't quit. Yet the smoker's fraternity is solid and assiduously seeks new members.
Smoking is linked with a cosmopolitan lifestyle.
With growing urbanisation, career achievements and increasing spending power women are determined not be left behind men. Women have attained virtual equality with men at least in smoking. According to the WHO the experience of the developed world shows, the tobacco epidemic among men is usually followed by a tobacco epidemic among women. The patterns exhibited in the industrialised world are being repeated in the developing countries like India. Not only female smokers suffer of the negative health effects that men do, but also women are prone to additional risks.