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From improvements to your skin to a lower risk of heart disease happens to your body in the hours, days, weeks and months ...

Vaping vendors often sell their products as “healthier” tobacco alternatives or a way to quit cigarettes. However, vapes still have risks and are most beneficial as a step on the journey to becoming ...

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

Smoking has been associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, and it treated as a causal risk factor for type 2 diabetes in non-pregnant adults. While ACOG and the ADA recommend screening ...

Although the research on vaping is still new, experts don’t think it’s a great way to quit smoking. Vaping still carries its own risks. Some people may use vape products, or e-cigarettes, for smoking ...

Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses. This is the finding recently made by a team of scientists at the Institut Pasteur using the Milieu ...

Small study cites increased movements of unborn babies when moms smoked. The study looked at fetuses for both smoking and non-smoking women. The fetuses, whose mother's smoked, tended to touch their ...

December 17, 2010 (Toronto, Canada) — Smokers did not have an enhanced response to clopidogrel compared with nonsmokers in a new analysis of ACS patients in the GRACE registry [1]. The study, ...