The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress required warnings on cigarette boxes.
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.
As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes: curbing ...
Evidence of the permanent impact of smoking on people's teeth has been uncovered by researchers for the first time. Researchers from Northumbria University have discovered that smokers have telltale ...
As the new millennium dawned, I noticed that smoking, very much on the wane since its 1960 peak, was suddenly getting a lot of alarming publicity. “Smoking causes lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, ...
Arthur Caplan is the director of the division of medical ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Nothing drives academics crazier than when the right wing ignores, undermines or misuses ...
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Graham Warren, M.D., Ph.D., and international collaborators have led a groundbreaking study that could change the way lung cancer is diagnosed and ...
As the new millennium dawned, I noticed that smoking, very much on the wane since its 1960 peak, was suddenly getting a lot of alarming publicity. “Smoking causes lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, ...