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Remains tom. well for more on how to cope with the heat wave we're joined by professor hans question going up from the center for space medicine and extreme environments at the charlie to university hospital here in berlin thanks for being with this is morning professor and we're expecting temperatures of 40 degrees and more in some parts of europe that could be really uncomfortable but is it dangerous actually it's for healthy people it's really uncomfortable but expression only for people right certain diseases like cholera resco diseases or c o p d a chronic obstructive lung diseases they a...

Who had not smoked. chronic obstructive pull my their diseases, in the 1960s a smoking woman was four times more likely to die from those chronic decides, by 2010 that risk had increased to 22.5 times. why, you're asking? it's because back in the 1960s fewer women were smoking, and they tended not to start smoking until later in life. all of that has changed now. more women are smoking more, they're inhaling more deeply, and they are starting at a very early age. dr. lynn electrickenfed of the american cancer society says women are now smoking and dying the same way men are. >> you've come a l...