Wildfire smoke contains a "complex mixture" of fine particles that can pose hazards after just short-term exposure, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Known as PM2.5 ...

Firefighters are still struggling to control the blazes, which have led to wildfire smoke that’s worsening the air quality in the region. Wildfire smoke can travel long distances and affect the ...

Depending on where you live, you could be wrong. That's because even after wildfires are over, the smoke can linger in the atmosphere for days or weeks. The smoke also can travel hundreds of miles ...

As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods with smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains ...

Wildfires in California aren’t all wild anymore. They often burn in urban areas, creating a toxic soup of smoke, ash and noxious substances that can be dangerous, even deadly. In Los Angeles ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes smoking as a "major public health concern," and says that smoking and secondhand smoke exposure is responsible for 480,000 deaths in ...

Wildfires are ablaze across California and they pose a significant threat to residents—not just because of the fire, but also due to the health impacts of breathing in smoke. These can range ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed curbing the level of nicotine in cigarettes to make the products less addictive in an ambitious effort to help more Americans quit smoking.

So it came as a shock to the American public when, on January 11, 1964, their surgeon general appeared on television saying that smoking tobacco leads to disease and death. Luther Terry ...

One study found that some young people begin feeling the symptoms of nicotine addiction within a matter of days after starting to smoke. In 2022, roughly half of adult smokers tried to quit ...

So is the intense heat generated. But remember, where there’s fire, there’s smoke, which may be a reversal of the standard proverb but is highly relevant here. The wildfires are creating large ...

But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke from these fires is emerging as a new and deadly pollution source, health experts say. By some estimates ...