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Despite these alarming statistics, the scale of the threat that smoking causes to women’s health has received surprisingly littl

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问题     Despite these alarming statistics, the scale of the threat that smoking causes to women’s health has received surprisingly little attention. Smoking is still seen by many as a mainly male problem, perhaps because men were the first to take up the habit and therefore the first to suffer the ill-effects. This is no longer the case. Women who smoke like men will die like men. WHO estimates that, in industrialized countries, smoking rates among men and women are very similar, at around 30 percent; in a large number of developed countries, smoking is now more common among teenage girls than boys.
    As women took up smoking later than men, the full impact of smoking on their health has yet to be seen. But it is clear from countries where women have smoked longest, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, that smoking causes the same diseases in women as in men and the gap between their death rates is narrowing. On current trends, some 20 to 25 percent of women who smoke will die from their habit. One in three of these deaths will be among women under 65 years of age. The US Surgeon General has estimated that, among these women, smoking is responsible for around 40 percent heart disease deaths, 55 percent of lethal strokes and, among women of all ages, 80 percent of lung cancer deaths and 30 percent of all cancer deaths. Over the last 20 years, death rates in women from lung cancer have more than doubled in Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom; have increased by more than 200 percent in Australia, Denmark and New Zealand; and have increased by more than 300 percent in Canada and the United States.
All of the following statements are the effects of smoking on women EXCEPT that______.
选项 A、the death rates of the women and men who are smoking are in similar proportion
B、smoking causes the same diseases in women as in men
C、in the past 20 years, death rates in women from lung cancer have more than doubled
D、smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all cancer deaths among women
答案C
解析 本题是细节题，可用排除法。由第二段的“smoking causes the same diseases in women asin men”可知．选项B是影响之一。“the gap between their death rates is narrowing．”说明吸烟男性和吸烟女性的死亡率之间的差距在缩小，逐渐接近，所以A项也正确。由第二段的“among women of all ages，80 percent of lung cancer deaths and 30 percent of all cancer deaths．”可知D项正确。故答案为C。
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