A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could raise that risk even higher, new research shows. "A higher genetic MS risk ...

Nov. 2, 2005 — -- Despite all the known risks about smoking and the landmark 1998 promise by Big Tobacco not to target children under 18, each day 2,000 Americans aged 12 to 17 become regular ...

A father's exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of COPD—a risk that is heightened further if they are childhood passive ...

Although smoking is the most common method of cannabis use, the long-term health consequences of exposure to cannabis smoke remain relatively unknown. Nevertheless, cannabis smoke is known to contain ...

Researchers analyzed cannabis smoking practices to assess whether in-home smoking was associated with cannabis detection in children. Researchers at University of California San Diego analyzed ...

Growing up in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Aitana V. remembers being a young girl and not seeing anyone from her school or in her community smoke. If the topic of cigarettes even came up, “we talked ...

Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a healthy, ...