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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in spite of the fact that I belong to what certain people – if only a few – call ‘the weaker sex’ and that I am many hundreds of miles from my children this evening, I want very much to be here debating this important issue. I wish to begin by thanking the rapporteur, my Swedish fellow Member Mrs Svensson, for having included many important issues worth highlighting in this context. I am very glad that the Socialist Group in the European Parliament has supported my amendments concerning, for example, women and smoking. The latter now forms part of paragraph 34, and I naturally hope that I shall receive support for it tomorrow.
Sweden became the first country in the world in which the number of women smokers exceeded the number of male smokers, a fact of which I do not feel especially proud. Women are more vulnerable than men to the dangers of smoking. One explanation is that, in general, women are smaller than men and have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries than men. Investigations also show that it is mainly poorly educated women in low-paid jobs, for example care assistants and other health care workers, who are the biggest smokers.
In the last few days, a major new study carried out by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) was presented, showing for example that women with symptoms of heart disease and vascular disorders generally receive worse care than men, and this in spite of the fact that women’s chances of surviving heart attacks are fewer than men’s.
Discrimination of all kinds, in this case gender discrimination in health systems, is an international matter. We in the EU should therefore come up with a clear policy and also draw on each other’s experiences."@en1
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