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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fashion, film and social feeds may be glamourizing cigarettes again, but experts say it isn’t a real behavioural shift.

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 ...

Numerous factors shape how a person’s immune system reacts to infections and other challenges. Age, sex and genetics are fundamental contributors—as the COVID pandemic highlighted. Now a new study ...