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Study: Smoking cessation harder for women

Women appear to have a tougher time quitting smoking than men,according to researchers at Women's Health Research at Yale.

While the percentage of men who have given up cigarettes between1965 and 2006 was 54.5 percent, the rate of decline among women wasless steep, at 47.5 percent.

Consequently, the gap in the percentages of male and female smokershas narrowed. In 1965, slightly more...

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