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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 ...

Smoking instead of injecting drugs can reduce harm, but a new study shows opioid smokers are four times as likely to suffer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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, ...