A new study of smokers finds that currently smoking is associated with a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, but quitting smoking was associated with a lower risk of death. The study, ...

Sophie Brock, 38, was able to quit through West Sussex County Council's cessation service.

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 ...

Current smokers had less incident Parkinson's, but higher mortality risk ...

An exome-wide association study of nearly 38,000 smokers from the Mexico City Prospective Study identified rare coding ...

“There’s no one who doesn’t know the risks,” says Peter Shields, MD, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the Ohio State University in Columbus. But, he says, nicotine is incredibly ...

A study of 410,000 adults finds current smokers have a lower Parkinson’s risk, while quitters have a higher Parkinson's risk but a much lower risk of death.

Smoking cigarettes increases your risk of cancer. Quitting smoking is your best choice for lowering your risk. We know that smoking cigarettes increases your risk of cancer. But how many years of ...

The Lone Star State has especially high insurance and secondhand smoke penalties. See how the numbers add up over a lifetime.

Smoking cigars can adversely affect a person’s health. In some ways, smoking them is worse than smoking cigarettes due to their contents. However, there are several ways a person can quit cigar ...

Some argue that pipe smoking is far less harmful than smoking cigarettes. But this assumption is based on several old myths that don’t stand up to more recent research. Here’s what we know. It’s ...

Workers seeking to ban smoking inside casinos have asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to find they have a constitutional ...