>Smoking is closely linked to some forms of breast cancer. the smoking rates among women in Belarus is ~10%. To account for the breast cancer rate increase in

>Smoking is closely linked to some forms of breast cancer. the smoking rates among women in Belarus is ~10%. To account for the breast cancer rate increase in the Gomel and Mogilev regions all the women smokers there would have to get the breast cancer. Add to that that women smoking rate for example in Russia is close to 20% and the breast cancer rates there are relatively normal. Given all that it is pretty obvious that smoking has nothing to do with that cancer rate increase in Gomel and Mogilev regions .