As I ascended the steps to London Bridge station to meet a friend, I wasn’t just out of breath – I couldn’t seem to inhale enough air. My breathing was shallow. I felt so weak I had to keep stopping.

The National Cancer Institute isn't changing one of its key messages: don't smoke--it'll kill you. But the mortality data from its ongoing National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) involving more than ...

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 ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Roswell Park study published last week in JAMA Network Open shows that adult smokers with no plans to quit are more likely to give up the habit if they switch to daily vaping. There ...

You're at a party and all of a sudden, the unmistakable whiff of cigarette smoke hits you from the direction of one of your friends, who's just stepped out for some "fresh air." "I didn't know you ...

Smokers today may be more strongly influenced by genetic predispositions than in generations past, and that may be making it harder for them to quit, a new study suggests. That’s not to say that our ...

My views on nicotine addiction don't fit any known template. Except my own. And, oh, the facts. And to show how mainstream, how core, my views are, I‘ll refer in this post to only U.S. Government ...