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Radon and smoking are both known causes of lung cancer, but when someone is exposed to both, the results can be deadly.

The tobacco industry rebranded a brutally addictive drug from deadly to desirable—and the longer-term health consequences may ...

It's no secret smoking cigarettes is bad for your health, but what about the alternative that has been getting increasingly popular: vaping? Check out today's new video as we compare the health risks ...

Just a few months after a pair of civic-minded youngsters made impassioned pleas to the St. Johns County Commission, commissioners unanimously voted to prohibit smoking and vaping and the littering of ...

A new major study from Queen Mary University of London has found that smokers who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the same time – known as dual use – are reducing their intake of harmful ...

Anyone walking through Brown’s campus may smell wafts of cigarette smoke — a sign of the prevalence of cigarette use on college campuses. On College Hill, students might be seen smoking a cigarette in ...

In a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, new research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate cardiovascular ...

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That is the question sparking a heated debate this week in Geneva where over 1,400 delegates have gathered to discuss the World Health Organization’s tobacco control treaty and what they call “the ...

New research dismantles the long-held belief that smoking less means less harm. Scientists now say the body suffers significant cardiovascular damage from even low levels of smoking. Researchers from ...