If governments want to discourage smoking among young people, both high taxes and smoking bans do the job - but bans may have one key advantage. A first-of-its-kind national study found that bans ...

May 16 -- FRIDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Highlighting the negative impact tobacco use has on cardiovascular health, researchers say that heavy smokers were 2.5 times more likely to die than their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Light ex-smokers had a similar cardiovascular risk to never-smokers after 10 years of cessation. Heavy ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. This devastating event occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. The resulting ...

New research uncovers how heavy smoking rapidly disrupts blood and airway biology, revealing the hidden damage that accelerates disease risk in otherwise healthy adults. Study: The effects of heavy ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Heavy smokers are less likely to become pregnant through IVF treatment, even with donated eggs, fertility experts said on Thursday. Sign up here. They found that smoking more than ...

New Jersey expanded smoke-free protections to beaches and boardwalks, yet thousands of casino employees still work in ...

Smoking can have a serious impact on the effect of the treatment of periodontitis – a widespread condition that leads to degradation of the teeth’s supportive tissue and, in serious cases, to loss of ...

"We found that older smokers for whom lung cancer screening is not recommended had a 10 times higher risk of lung cancer than never smokers."—Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, ...