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Here's the paper: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf?sequence=1 http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf... The f

Here's the paper: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf?sequence=1 http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf... The first sentence is: "Tampons are used by up to 70 percent of menstruating women in the United States today, and the average woman may use as many as 16,800 tampons in her lifetime."

cheshire137 12y ago
Using tampons doesn't rule out using pads, too. If I use a tampon one day, I'm one of that 70% of menstruating women that uses tampons. If I use a pad when I swap out that tampon, I'm now also one of the x% of menstruating women that uses pads.
- teamhappy 12y ago
  Realised that the second I pasted the text. It's midnight in Germany ... That's the original link I found: http://askville.amazon.com/AMERICAN-WOMEN-TAMPONS-PADS-PERIOD/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=15177503 http://askville.amazon.com/AMERICAN-WOMEN-TAMPONS-PADS-PERIO... And here is another statistic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22980411 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22980411 They're both not clear though I do think it's fair to say tampons are preferred. Just google for "tampons vs. pads".
larve 12y ago
how do you use 16800 tampons over a lifetime? that's one a day for 46 years.
- ghshephard 12y ago
  Well, if you change your tampon ever 2-3 hours, then you end up using 4-5 a day, which can run up to 30-35 tampons a month, which averages out to a little more than one a day.
fulafel 12y ago
That's US only.