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, ...

Researchers tested the surfaces in smoking households where children reside and found troubling results. It's long been established that secondhand smoke is a detriment to health and linked to cancer.

On No Smoking Day, we drive our focus to science-backed methods that can help one leave smoking. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide. It also contributed to severe ...

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North America’s summer of smoke may well be a harbinger of what’s to come. As record-breaking wildfires in Canada continue to sweep across the land, smoke has been suffusing the skies for more and ...

Smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning across Canada has been rolling into North American cities far from the flames. New York City and Detroit were both listed among the five most polluted cities ...

WASHINGTON — A national panel of public health experts concluded in a report released Tuesday that vaping with e-cigarettes that contain nicotine can be addictive and that teenagers who use the ...

Picture the boreal forest, in northern Quebec, on the morning of June 1st. Bears, moose, and wolves roamed, circling its unusually dry lakes, bogs, rivers, and creeks. In the afternoon, after weeks of ...

Smoke detectors sit quietly on ceilings, usually ignored until something goes wrong. Most people only notice them when the ...