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Women who smoke are no more than likely to develop lung malignant neoplastic disease than men, United States research workers have got concluded.

There had been at odds grounds on women's risk, but the National Cancer Institute survey of over 450,000 people establish no grammatical gender difference.

The survey published in Lancet Arch Oncology establish a difference of lone 0.9% between the hazard for work force and that for women.

The most recent United Kingdom statistics demo that in 2006, 23% of work force and 21% of women were coffin nail smokers.

Lung malignant neoplastic disease kills around 30,000 people a twelvemonth in the UK.

'Vigorous attempts needed'

The research workers analysed information on smoke habits, diet, exercising and alcoholic beverage usage for 279,214 work force and 184,623 women aged between 50 and 71 life in eight United States states.

They then looked at lung malignant neoplastic disease rates.

The difference in hazard for women and work force who smoked was just 0.9%.

Men and women who smoke more than than two battalions per twenty-four hours were about 50 modern times more likely to develop lung malignant neoplastic disease than people who had never smoked.

The team, led by Dr Neal Freedman, said their survey benefited from its size, giving dependable determinations

They conclude: "Our determinations propose that women are not more than susceptible than work force to the carcinogenic personal effects of coffin nail smoke in the lung.

"Vigorous attempts should go on to be directed at eliminating smoke in both sexes."

Andy McEwen, helper manager of baccy surveys at Cancer Research UK's Health Behavior Research Centre, said: "Smoking have a annihilating consequence on the wellness of people trapped by their baccy addiction.

"The hazard of a smoker, male or female, developing lung malignant neoplastic disease is 15 modern times greater than that of a non-smoker and smoke goes on to be the greatest preventable cause of decease for work force and women."

"Smoking business relationships for the huge bulk of lawsuits of lung malignant neoplastic disease worldwide.

"More have to be done to assist all tobacco users to discontinue if we are to forestall future deceases from lung cancer."