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Speaking after that study, Prof Sir Richard Peto, at Oxford University, said "If women smoke like men, they die like men." More on this story Published27 October 2012 Published12 December 2012 Published11 August 2011

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They also examined how tobacco taxation can be used as an effective strategy to reduce these harms

He saw the female audience as "a gold mine right in our front yard" which they were not properly exploiting due to some (Brandt 82) Lingering stigmas against women smoking in public seemed and barrier to sales, and Hill wanted to find ways to remove that stigma and encourage more women to smoke in restaurants or on the street