Chronic bronchitis is caused by habitual cigarette smoking and differs from its acute form in that the disease will repeatedly plague and individual. ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as COPD, is a disease linked to cigarette usage which affects the respiratory system, particularly the lungs. ...
Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his signature corncob pipe. Soldiers got cigarettes in their C-rations during World War II. Even today, America's war on tobacco seems to have largely bypassed the military. Now a proposal to make the forces smoke-free is drawing strong ...
Charges firm is targeting kids Weeks after reaching a settlement with three retailers to block sale of the electronic cigarette NJOY, the state of Oregon is taking another e-cigarette maker to court. Oregon Attorney General John Kroger is suing Smoking Everywhere, alleging ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Friends and parents have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers -- but so do parents, a new study finds. The study, which followed 270 teenagers who had become ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Friends have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers -- but so do parents, a new study finds. The study, which followed 270 teenagers who had become occasional smokers ...
While the American surgeon general and any other medical professional worth his salt is likely to tell you that cigarettes are bad for you, many aren’t aware of the effects of smoking clove cigarettes, or kreteks. In fact, kreteks, also known as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Riding in a car with a smoker is just as bad for your health or may even be worse than hanging out in a smoky bar, according to U.S. researchers. A small study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tobacco use will kill 6 million people next year from cancer, heart disease, emphysema and a range of other ills, global cancer experts said in a report issued on Tuesday. The new Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Riding shotgun with a smoker is just as bad as hanging out in a smoky bar when it comes to being exposed to second-hand smoke, Johns Hopkins researchers report. In fact, they found, it's probably worse-and for ...
As cigarette prices climb, smokers turn to green thumbs and gardens for tobacco Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco ...
No smoke doesn't mean no fire If you're a smokeless tobacco user and you think snuff and chewing tobacco are safe because they don't burn and produce inhalable smoke like cigarettes, you better think again. A study that looked beyond the well-researched ...
