The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress required warnings on cigarette boxes.

(Reuters) - New lung cancer screening guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society (ACS) on Wednesday call for annual testing with low‐dose computed tomography (CT) for anyone aged 50 to 80 who ...

Washington Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Obama's health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the ...

Older smokers lose cognitive function faster, it turns out. Their grey matter is damaged at a rate greater than what is the case with non-smokers according to a new study by researchers at The ...

Older smokers are usually more set in their ways, but a dollar increase in cigarette prices makes them 20 percent more likely to quit, a new Drexel University study found. The study, published in ...

Older adults who smoke tobacco and have higher levels of cotinine, a biomarker that shows tobacco exposure, have higher chances of pre-frailty and frailty, a new study finds. Helping older adults ...

Men, older adults and smokers are all more prone to coronavirus infection due to their biology, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples of respiratory cells from ...

Quitting smoking – male hand crushing cigarette While past research has found that young smokers are more likely to attempt to quit smoking, findings regarding age and success of quitting is ...

Seniors who smoke are significantly more likely to develop forms of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease than those who don’t, or those who quit in the past, Dutch researchers say. There is a 50% increase ...

Quitting smoking benefits older individuals, yet few recent studies have described older smokers. The goal of this paper was to test a series of hypotheses about differences between smokers aged 50 ...