Women and children hang tobacco to dry in the sun.

女人和孩子把烟叶悬挂起来在太阳下晒干。

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The disease now affects men and women almost equally, due in part to increased tobacco use among women in high-income countries.

部分由于在高收入国家中妇女烟草使用的增加，该疾病现在对男性和女性的影响几乎是相同的。

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The WHO Framework Convention, which took effect in 2005, expresses alarm at "the increase in smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption by women and young girls worldwide".

于2005年生效的《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》对“全世界妇女和少女吸烟及其他形式烟草消费的增加”表示震惊。

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This year, special attention is being given to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing to women and girls.

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The W.H.O.is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

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The W.H.O.says the tobacco industry has increasingly directed its marketing campaigns at women and girls.

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But he also blames targeted promotions by tobacco companies (like Virginia Slims targeting women in the 1970s and other brands targeting inner-city minority groups today) and the movies.

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The two foundations have also worked together to reduce tobacco use, and to offer family planning services and modern birth control to women around the world.

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Women who had a minor variant of this gene were only half as likely to quit smoking and stay off tobacco, in an experiment that involved nicotine patches.

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