Parkinson's paradox, linking current smoking to lower disease risk but linking quitting to lower all-cause mortality.

Maternal tobacco smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for increased childhood blood pressure (BP) and hypertension.

During pregnancy, the immune system undergoes deliberate changes to protect both the mother and the fetus. It helps pregnant women feel good about how strong their bodies are. Smoking adds things to ...

It is said that the very word smoking is associated with lung disease, and that's because science as well as global experiences have proved this. Usually coughing, breathlessness, and cancer risks ...

Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

Singaporean fashion photographer Chuando Tan celebrated his 60th birthday, astonishing the internet with his remarkably ...

A father’s lifelong exposure to passive smoking from his parent could affect his own children’s lungs and put them at risk of chronic respiratory conditions, a new study found. The study, published in ...

Researchers found a positive association between the presence of common environmental pollutants in the human body and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – One morning last summer, I was biking to the lake, when I stopped on the sidewalk at an intersection, ...

Through a series of experiments supported by the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) researchers say they have advanced understanding of how smoking damages the eye and ...

The prevalence of waterpipe smoking (WPS) is increasingly recognised as a growing global public health concern. Available studies show that WPS exposes users to toxicants at levels similar to or ...