Some risks were quantified for women only—for example, intimate partner violence, which accounted for 1·5% (1·0—2·1) of DALYs among women in 2010. Important differences between men and women also exist for disease burden attributable to other risk factors, most notably, for tobacco smoking including secondhand smoke and alcohol use (figures 1, 2). These risks cause substantially lower burden in women than in men, because women drink less and in less harmful ways than do men, and fewer smoke or have smoked for a shorter time than have men in most regions.157 In 2010, tobacco smoking including second-hand smoke accounted for 8·4% of worldwide disease burden among men (the leading risk factor) compared with 3·7% among women (fourth highest risk factor). For alcohol use, these sex differences were similarly sub stantial: 7·4% (third) versus 3·0% (eighth). The effect of occupational risk factors on population health also differed between sexes—for example, the fraction of disease burden attributable to occupational risk factors for injuries was 18·5 times higher for men than for women in 2010 (20 175 000 DALYs for men vs 1
