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Your article "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" (House and Home) reveals that, according to the EPA, the cancer risk from wood smoke is "... 12 times greater than an equal amount of tobacco smoke." Are you talking about plain tobacco smoke, or about a typical dioxin-delivering cigarett, with its host of carcinogenic adulterants?

It is peculiar that the most hated and notorious source of direct dioxin poisoning, the typical cigarett, remains invisible to those with concerns about diabetes and a host of other diseases that are linked to dioxin exposures. According to one study, these exposures present high levels of dioxin to a smoker, equivalent, they noted, to "emissions from an industrial flue." But it''s not from tobacco, but from hosts of chlorinated pesticide residues, bleached paper, any number of untested additives and industrial waste cellulose in cigaretts.

Women smokers may face greater challengers than men when they try to quit, reveals the Mayo Clinic Women''s HealthSource. A review of several studies found that females tend to be less successful in quitting than males, even though they may be at greater risk of some smoking--related illnesses such as lung cancer. In fact, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease among women.

Other comparisons between men and women smokers show females to be more fearful of weight gain than their male counterparts. Moreover, nicotine withdrawal symptoms, as well as responses to medications used to stop smoking, may vary at different phases of the menstrual cycle. Additionally, women may be more susceptible to environmental cues to smoking, such as when socializing with friends or being in certain moods. Good news about cigaretts and teens: Fewer 12th-, 10th-, and 8th-graders lit up in 9002 than in 2001. This continues a downward trend that''s been going on fop about five years. Maybe young people are getting better information about the health risks of tobacco use, such as lung cancer and addiction. Check out the line graph below. Then, take the multiple-choice quiz that follows. Three articles in the September/October issue of E relate to tobacco issues. "Battling Blood Sugar" (Your Health) informs us, "Dioxin exposure may be the most significant environmental risk factor for adult onset ... diabetes." The article cites only air, water and food as sources of contamination by this deadly byproduct of manmade chlorine.