Smoking is widely linked to lung and heart diseases, but a cardiovascular surgeon says its impact on bone health is often ...

As the new millennium dawned, I noticed that smoking, very much on the wane since its 1960 peak, was suddenly getting a lot of alarming publicity. “Smoking causes lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, ...

Smoking is injurious to your health and quitting it is even more important for the betterment of your health. Nicotine addiction affects the body and the brain; thus, most people have trouble quitting ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why smoking makes Crohn’s disease worse but seems to protect people from ulcerative colitis. Now, researchers at RIKEN have discovered that smoking creates ...

Numerous factors shape how a person’s immune system reacts to infections and other challenges. Age, sex and genetics are fundamental contributors—as the COVID pandemic highlighted. Now a new study ...