Women and Tobacco: global trends

Studies have shown that the thrust of the tobacco companies' advertising influences the rates of smoking among young women. Thus, Japan has sharply increased in women smokers, with 8.6 per cent in 1986 to 18, 2 percent in 1991, after an aggressive advertising campaign aimed at zhenschin28. In 1988, in South Korea smoked only two per cent of adolescent girls. The following year, after the Mill began to import cigarettes from the United States, and together with them to promote the American way of life, the number of smoking among teenage girls jumped to 9 per cent. In the United States, the number of smokers among teenage girls 12 years old increased by 110 percent over the six years since the advent of the market thin Virginia Slims cigarettes...