A newly discovered brain circuit may explain why women tend to become hooked on nicotine more quickly than men. Smoking remains a leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, ...

Doctors and health experts have long established that smoking cigarettes poses dangers to health. However, studies differ on the harm of cigarettes and its impact on shortening life expectancy. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found a significantly increased adjusted risk for COPD diagnosis among women vs. men. Women had a ...

Melanie Griffith is a chain-smoker who continues to spark up, despite her not-so-distant bout with skin cancer. Now, loved ones are pleading with her to quit the habit before it compromises her health ...

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

There isn’t much research on those of us who bum a cigarette every so often, but here’s what we do know: Cigarettes are still ...

Smoking hurts everyone, but women under the age of 50 who smoke are at four to five times greater risk for having a heart attack, according to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo. He says most people ...

The morning starts with a familiar motion. Fingers wrap around a cigarette. Lips press against it. A flick of a lighter, a ...

Women' are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...