cancer society, women are now smoking and dying the same way men are. you have come a long way baby now has entirely new meaning. that meaning is not good. as the researchers themselves note and perhaps it s very unvarnished terms, if you smoke like a man, you are going to die like a man. it was previously thought that while women did contract lung cancer and connick obstructive pulmonary disease from smoking that they were as a gender just far less at risk than men were. but now, shep, they discovered now, they are exactly the same risk that men are. shepard: different study out, john, that shows it is never too late to quit. it does, shep. this is a companionthe new englf medicine today. this one from the centers for disease control. it found and we will put this up on the screen for you because it s pretty shocking. if you smoke over your entire lifetime, you will lose a decade off of your life expectancy. here is the good news, if you quit by the age of 44, can you