Even non-smokers can experience health hazards from cigarette smoke, and the latest study suggests the dangers may depend on your gender.
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Vitamin E May Boost Return to Healthy Hearts in Former Smokers
Smoking can harm the heart, and while quitting is the most powerful way to avoid heart disease, taking vitamin E after putting out the cigarettes may speed the process along.
Walking Cure: Strolls Can Help Teen Smokers to Quit
Is the buzz from exercise enough to compensate for nicotine hits from cigarettes?
Tobacco Company Reports Early Success With Better-for-You Cigarettes
Aside from not lighting up at all, cigarettes developed to reduce a smoker’s exposure to tobacco’s toxins may be the best way to reduce health risks from smoking.
Colorful Way Tobacco Industry May Be Skirting Labeling Rules
Words like “light” and “mild” can’t be used on cigarette packages, but colors can.
Remembering Dr. C. Everett Koop, America’s Doctor
Koop endowed the office of Surgeon General with important powers to influence public health
Should Mentally Ill Patients Be Allowed to Smoke?
Smoking has long been tolerated in psychiatric institutes, but administrators want to ban the habit
When It Comes to Longevity, It’s Not Years But Microlives that May Count
We know that overindulging in our favorite foods isn’t good for our health, but researchers propose a new way of quantifying just how harmful those treats can be.
Risk of Sudden Death High Even for Light Smokers
The latest research quantifies how much smoking contributes to sudden heart-related death, and how quitting can potentially erase that risk.
Want to Cure a Hangover? Don’t Pick Up a Cigarette
Lighting up and drinking go hand in hand on a night of revelry, but smoking can make hangovers worse.
10 minutes
— The amount of time it takes for a smoker to increase harmful pollutants in a car by 30%.
Flying over the Holidays? Secondhand Smoke Still Poses Health Risk at Some Airports
Airports with designated smoking areas can still expose nonsmokers to surprising levels of cigarette smoke
Study Shows More Than Half of All Americans Will Get Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans, and the lifetime risk among healthy Americans remains dangerously high.