Seventy percent of patients surveyed said they are either “bothered” or "really bothered" when tobacco companies make money from an inhaler, medication, or other devices that treat their lung conditions.
On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, international lung health groups are raising concerns over Big Tobacco's impact on environmental health and ultimately lung health.
An analysis of smoking habits among young people in the United States found that 2.55 million middle school and high school students use some type of tobacco product.
Smoking-related DNA methylation patterns explain around a fifth of the variation in body mass index (BMI) between individuals, according to a study published in Plos Genetics.
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Researchers from Rutgers University found that video conferencing with tobacco treatment specialists may help smokers incarcerated in rural prisons quit tobacco smoking.
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Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could reduce smoking by 15% by having smokers quit tobacco or switch to vaping products, which would prevent 16,250 tobacco-related deaths per year by 2060.
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Among college-aged students in 2020, marijuana use is at an all-time high, vaping has plateaued, hallucinogen use has significantly increased, and alcohol use declined.
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Environmental tobacco smoke exposure in utero and during early childhood—especially secondhand smoke—is associated with decreased childhood lung function.
Read MoreThe US FDA announced it will advance regulations to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars, which the agency says cause tobacco-related health disparities in communities of color and addict youth.
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A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society discusses how smoking may affect risk for COVID-19 and the types of research that are needed to better understand the link between smoking and COVID-19 risk.
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Pandemic-related anxiety and boredom were drivers of increased nicotine and tobacco use during the initial COVID-19 lockdown.
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Nearly 1-in-5 teens are vaping and close to 1-in-4 teens are using at least one tobacco product, according to the American Lung Association’s 19th annual “State of Tobacco Control” report.
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Social smokers are more than twice as likely to die of lung disease and more than eight times as likely to die of lung cancer than nonsmokers.
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The US FDA authorized the IQOS Tobacco Heating System as a modified risk tobacco product. The electronic device heats up tobacco into an aerosol.
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Dysanapsis, a condition that causes underdeveloped bronchi and bronchioles, may leave patients at greater risk of developing COPD, even if they have never smoked.
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