Social smoking at 50 as lethal as chain smoking at 30!
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A new study conducted by researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center suggests that a social smoker age 50 or older has a risk for developing lung cancer similar to that of a smoker under age 50 who smoked three packs a day
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Inhaled cannabis smoke has significantly more toxins than tobacco, a study suggests.
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If you're under 40 and smoke, your risk of having a heart attack is significantly greater than someone your age who doesn't, a new study finds. According to the report, male smokers between the ages of 35 and 39 were almost five times as likely to have a nonfatal heart attack as were nonsmokers.
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A sharp increase in the number of middle-aged people drinking themselves to death was revealed yesterday
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Children exposed to passive smoking have a higher risk of developing lung cancer later in life than other youngsters, according to new research.
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[Health India]: London, Oct 19: Passive smoking may have long been known to be a health hazard and now a new report by The Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (Scoth) confirms that it significantly increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease
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Cigarette smoking is more harmful to  women than to men, cutting more than a decade off female  smokers' life expectancy but much less for their male peers,  Dutch government research suggested Monday.
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An influential medical group says all men ages 65 to 75 who have ever smoked need an ultrasound test to see if they have a condition that could quickly kill them.
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Cigarette smoking causes approximately 440,000 deaths annually in the United States (1). To assess the prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, CDC analyzed data from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.
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Smoking has long been known to cause cancer, heart disease, impotence and so on -- now, damage to your IQ can be added to the list.
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Passive smoking massively increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, an official report has confirmed. But ministers have sat on the explosive study amid fears it will lead to calls for an outright
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Everyone knows smoking is a bad idea, but those who can't give it up may get a little protection from exercise, a study suggests. In a study of older women, researchers found that a physically active smoker had a 35 percent lower risk of lung cancer than a sedentary smoker.
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Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.
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SATURDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Think lung cancer, and most people picture a disease that primarily strikes older men who smoke.
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Seniors are leading the way in the new battle to ban smoking from communal environments.
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A public-health article published online by THE LANCET suggests that Philip Morris, one of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, was covertly involved in scientific research into the health effects of tobacco 30 years ago, and conducted research into
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Deaths from smoking continue to rise around the world, and a mutation in a gene linked to nicotine metabolism may be a cause of nicotine addiction, according to two new