Ex-smokers in Birmingham are being recruited for a study looking at the impact of vaping on them. Scientists are setting out to look at the long-term impact of vaping on people, to investigate the ...

Share on Pinterest Even occasional smoking can significantly raise heart disease risk. Mal de Ojo Studio/Stocksy Researchers say that smoking as few as two cigarettes a day can significantly increase ...

While smoking is often linked to lung and heart diseases, it also weakens bones by reducing bone density. Dr Jeremy London ...

From classrooms to cockpits, lighting up was once as common as breathing. For anyone under 40, it’s hard to fathom just how thoroughly tobacco smoke permeated everyday life from the 1950s through the ...

Christine Emba’s homage to the allure and attractiveness of cigarette smoking (“The Embodied Pleasure of Smoking,” Opinion guest essay, Aug. 10) should itself have a warning label on it. Tobacco use ...

Smoking rates in the United States are at historic lows and fewer people are dying from tobacco-related lung cancer — in part because the federal government has pumped millions of dollars into ...

As a clinician who treats veterans struggling with trauma, mental illness, and addiction, I’m careful about language. Words matter. They shape policy, treatment decisions, and public understanding.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This piece is part of a series of stories about nicotine's rebrand from a public health threat to a ...

Almost 70 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke cigarettes, which is two to three times higher than the general population. Why? Is it that people with schizophrenia feel a pull towards nicotine, ...