Alcohol and tobacco products are common substances that adults may use worldwide. However, both can increase the risk of various health conditions. Smoking and alcohol use are common, and many people ...

Live fast, face health issues young. People who had an unhealthy relationship with smoking, drinking and exercise early in life ended up on the fast track to mental and physical health troubles by ...

Drinking, smoking and screwing. That’s what hotel restaurants are really for — for doing the first two as prelude to the third. Waiting, too. Hotel restaurants are good for waiting. And for drinking ...

When I finally stopped drinking after half a century, I discovered that abstinence has physical and mental rewards, even when ...

Bad habits such as smoking, heavy drinking and lack of exercise must be tackled as early as possible to boost the odds of a happy and healthy old age. That is the message of a new peer-reviewed study, ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. This devastating event occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. The resulting ...

Data for this study were provided from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) conducted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US ...

We have some holiday cheer for parents of teens: In the US, teen drug and alcohol use is continuing to stay low in the post-pandemic years. Even better? Abstaining from alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Americans are binge drinking and smoking tobacco less but consuming marijuana significantly more, according to a new federal survey on drug ...