The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes smoking as a "major public health concern," and says that smoking and secondhand smoke exposure is responsible for 480,000 deaths in ...

Although significant progress has been made in the past several decades in reducing smoking rates in Canada, the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH) Footnote 1 want to highlight that ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed curbing the level of nicotine in cigarettes to make the products less addictive in an ambitious effort to help more Americans quit smoking.

Hedy Lamarr's journey to America. After an overview of her career, we follow Hedy Lamarr’s life starting in Austria, to her fleeing and increasing hostile environment in pre-war Austria ...

His picks for key health positions have not commented, but his anti-regulatory past concerns anti-smoking activists. If nicotine levels are slashed, it “would be the death knell of smoking in ...

Going cold turkey can be incredibly challenging and often results in slip-ups, which is why it’s important to consider using an e-cigarette to help you quit smoking once and for all.

So it came as a shock to the American public when, on January 11, 1964, their surgeon general appeared on television saying that smoking tobacco leads to disease and death. Luther Terry ...

Currently, there is no direct research on the effects that smoking weed has on a cold. While some people say that smoking cannabis helps with inflammatory symptoms, others argue that the heat and ...

Since 2007 there have been moves towards stricter regulations on smoking in public spaces across the world. But have any of these had noticeable health impacts? Sally Howard and Geetanjali Krishna ...

Those aged 18 to 24 years have had the largest reduction in smoking prevalence (15.9 percentage points) between 2011 (25.7%) and 2023 (9.8%). Around 5.1 million adults aged 16 years and over (9.8%) ...

It is troubling—and somewhat puzzling—that roughly 11% of adult Americans continue to voluntarily inhale the hot gases of combustion in smoking tobacco, not to mention those now inhaling hot gases ...