Background A recent rigorous study has shown that cytisine, a low-cost drug, is effective for smoking cessation. A number of earlier studies exist, mostly from former communist countries where ...

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health has issued a public overdose alert after a tested drug sample in Saskatoon was found to ...

While it's common knowledge that many lung cancer cases are caused by lifestyle habits such as smoking, one unfortunate ...

Quitting smoking is linked to greater long-term waist circumference gain, but this effect may be due to shared genetics ...

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Investigating smoking cessation and waist circumference, this study highlights the role of leisure-time physical activity in ...

Smoking is an excellent food preservation method but also a source of contamination of foodstuffs with carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Herein we investigated the influence of ...

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Currently, people who are eligible for lung cancer screening are ages 50 to 80 and are active smokers or have quit within the past 15 years. They also need to have smoked one pack per day for 20 ...

It’s been more than 20 years since their invention, and in that time e-cigarettes do appear to have had real public health benefits for smokers. At the population level, lung cancer rates have ...

Parishioners at a church in Wayne, MI, ran for their lives in the midst of an active shooter scare. Outside, a deacon and security guard were teaming up in different ways to put an end to the threat.

In contrast, active smokers, when compared with the same reference group (non-smokers with cotinine ≤0.05 ng/ml) had a HR for MI of 2.53 (95% CI 1.61 to 3.99), reducing slightly to 2.14 (95% CI 1.39 ...