Adult and youth smoking rates this decade have dipped to the lowest levels on record. Despite this progress, the nation's top doctor is warning about stubborn disparities that remain among the 36 ...

Cigarette smoking has dramatically declined in the U.S. since the 1960s, after a report from the Surgeon General in 1964 stated that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and likely heart disease.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Here’s how it damages different parts of your body. Pictures of twins show how smoking dramatically speeds up wrinkles and ...

Smoking—cigarettes, cigars, pipes, marijuana, and even electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes—can have a harmful effect on your entire body, but especially on your respiratory system. This includes ...

Pack years can also help doctors evaluate the risk of other diseases caused by smoking, including heart disease, other cancers, and more. Researchers also use pack years as a standard way to measure ...

Two years after the "Twin Peaks" director, 78, was diagnosed with emphysema, he finally stopped smoking — and now he's urging others to quit too Josh Telles Try Googling “David Lynch” and ...

Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence causes significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...

The bill seeks to drastically shake up the South African smoking scene where (according to the South African Medical Research Council) around 29.4% of the adult population is currently using ...

The Department for Health and Social Care said it will not comment on reports of Downing Street blocking plans to ban outdoor smoking. Back in August, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said his ...

Charity Action on Smoking and Health says deprivation and higher smoking levels are linked. Buzzers have been installed at hospitals which will prompt a loudspeaker message for anyone smoking.