A woman, her hair uncovered, ignites a cigarette using a burning photo of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This ...

While smoking boosts the likelihood of heart attack in both men and women of all ages, it has a much more powerful effect in younger women, especially those under 50, a new study suggests. For women ...

The risks of smoking to the heart are pretty well known. Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a heart attack, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart disease ...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters Life!) - Women who smoke cigarettes are more likely to develop heart disease than men who smoke, with the risk for women increasing every year that they smoke, according to a ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A new group of Pennsylvanians can now receive the coronavirus vaccine. That group includes smokers, people who are obese, and pregnant women. According to the Pennsylvania ...

Jantra Coll, a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology, began smoking four years ago to cope with the stress of her studies. She says, of course, that she knows smoking causes lung cancer. "I think ...

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 ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

Women tend to find it harder to quit smoking than men, and a new study suggests why — women's brains respond differently to nicotine, the researchers say. When a person smokes, the number of nicotine ...