Researchers said on Tuesday that millions of women in developing countries with illness and death are in the coming decades due to the tobacco, due to their status as political and economic growth.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the world (who) World Health Organization (WHO), which analyzes 74 countries and came to the conclusion that the men are five times more frequently than women in the countries where women have a lower rate of female emancipation, such as China, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, to smoke.
In countries such as the United States, almost as much as men smoking Australia, Canada and the Sweden, where the female emancipation is relatively high, the gap is small and women tend to.
The results showed it must be great for Governments quickly reduce smoking women, especially in the least developed countries, said Douglas Bettcher, Director of the who tobacco free initiative.
"The tobacco epidemic is still in its infancy in many countries but should even worse," said Bettcher Reuters in a statement. "Strong tobacco control measures, which prohibits such as tobacco advertising are needed to prevent that the tobacco industry, the women".
They described as "one of the greatest threats to public health of the world has faced" of tobacco. The annual balance sheet of tobacco use is associated with more than 5 million, according to experts, and it could increase by 2030 over eight million in the year, unless takes measures against smoking.
The study found, that in China, such as 61% of men are reported as current smokers, with only 4.2 percent of the people, the women, while in many rich countries, the ratio between men and women smokers gap is almost non-existent.
The United Nations Development Programme measures empowering women with information such as the representation in the Parliament, voting rights and male and female income comparisons.
"Our study Geschlecht… is evidence implement tobacco control activities as more and more taxes on tobacco, the warnings of more important health print, laws, without smoke and advertising and promotion bans," said Geoffrey Fong, the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, who led the study.
Co-author of the study, Sara Hitchman, said that the authorities should examine "the ways in which the tobacco industry on social changes to target women, such as the marketing of cigarettes to women as a symbol of emancipation is capital".
Would be a helpful step, taxes, how price and tax measures affect begin decisions of women smoking in countries where tobacco is still widely used, said the two authors of the study.
"Other research in the pattern of absorption could help Governments take more effective measures and reduce the rate of introduction for the use of tobacco among women in the future," said Hitchman.