Kolkata docs raise alarm on smoking and rising cancer rates in women

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

- ANINDITA ACHARYA

KOLKATA: These days, not smoking might make you seem 'uncool' to some, but more teenage girls and women are picking up the habit, without realising the damage it's doing to their health. On International Women's Day, doctors in Kolkata sounded the alarm over the growing concern of increase in women smokers, sedentary lifestyle and obesity.

Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in the city, followed by cervical and ovarian. With smoking now a leading cause of lung cancer in women, oncologists are worried about the sharp rise in female smokers.