Women in East Germany will be more likely to die from smoking than those in West Germany

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Due to a silent but dramatic increase in the number of young East German women smoking after reunification, their death rates are forecasted to exceed those in the West within the next few decades according to forecasts up to the year 2036 by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock. The deadly trend is hidden beneath a currently favorable trend in life expectancy.

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