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Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's (AP)

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_he_me/med_women_smokers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080805/capt.cps.net04.050808181421.photo00.photo.default-512x362.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=qaJnBGMc7sGahwdoP_gI0w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A bar patron, seen in 2006, lights a cigarette at a bar in Lille, France. All cigarettes sold throughout the European Union will be self-extinguishing "fire-safe" brands by 2011, the EU Commission said Tuesday.(AFP/File/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)" border="0" /></a>AP - Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday. In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology.</p><br clear="all"/>