Secondhand smoke from cigarettes is much worse than that from vaping, in terms of exposing children to nicotine, a new study finds. Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one-seventh the ...

Vaping has already been shown to beat nicotine gum when it comes to helping people quit smoking. Now it appears it's also less harmful for children to be around vapers than cigarette smokers. Marijan ...

In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called "secondhand smoke" or "passive smoking"—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using ...

The risk of breathing second-hand smoke from cigarettes is well-documented, but the dangers from breathing second-hand marijuana smoke are not, until now. A new study from a researcher at the ...

Dr. Granger answers the question: 'Second-Hand Smoke And Heart Danger?' — -- Question: What is second-hand smoke and why is it dangerous for the heart? Answer: Second-hand smoke is smoke that you ...

A new study shows that postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters DNA methylation, which may help explain adverse health effects Using blood samples from participants, the team looked at the level of ...

You’re in line in line waiting for the bus, or walking through a crowd at Times Square, or even sitting on your balcony when you get that overwhelming smell of marijuana. You move because you don’t ...

This is a rather overlooked form of smoking. You are not the one smoking, nor standing near one, but the toxic particles can ...

We know second-hand smoke has been credited with causing the deaths of thousands of human non-smokers each year. The Center for Disease Control has published the statistics to back it up. Recently ...

Starting today, California is taking a stand against thirdhand smoke. While most people are well aware of the health threat of secondhand smoke — what you inhale from someone smoking a cigarette ...

Asthma is a significant disease; among children, the prevalence is between 7 and 11%. The exacerbation of asthma by second-hand tobacco smoke is well documented, but as smoking tobacco has declined, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Other people's cigarette smoke could be to blame for much of the chronic itchy, runny nose and sinus woes - also known as rhinosinusitis -- that plague one in every six US ...