An exome-wide association study of nearly 38,000 smokers from the Mexico City Prospective Study identified rare coding ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 28 million Americans smoke tobacco (11% of US adults). 68% of smokers want to quit, and 55% of smokers have tried at least ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Samuels is the Founder/CEO of Wellworth healthcare advisory firm. A cigarette lit on screen once symbolized noir, danger and ...

Growing up in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Aitana V. remembers being a young girl and not seeing anyone from her school or in her community smoke. If the topic of cigarettes even came up, “we talked ...

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15 ...

March 13 is "No Smoking Day" — the perfect excuse to say goodbye to cigarettes once and for all! Whether you’ve tried before or are just getting started, today’s the day to kick those bad habits to ...

The harms of smoking cigarettes are pretty clear. Smoking causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases, and it’s the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. When it comes to ...

A woman reflects on decades of quitting and relapsing, the nostalgia tied to smoking, and why she's rethinking what it means to quit.