Are you an active or former smoker age 50-80? If so, you may qualify for lung cancer screening The American Lung Association in California is raising awareness of the benefits of early screening ...

In a study of more than 36,000 women, researchers observed that smokers can reduce their risk of developing lung cancer by being physically active. However, they strongly caution that any relative ...

Among 1,600 active smokers who had no intention to quit at the start of the study, 28% who used e-cigarette, or vaping, devices daily stopped smoking traditional cigarettes within 12 months, the ...

Medical experts report rising lung cancer diagnoses in non-smokers as smoking rates decline, raising questions about ...

While active smokers inhale directly from cigarettes, passive smokers, or secondhand smokers, inhale the smoke exhaled by others. Both forms of exposure carry significant health risks.

The risk of death or poor prognosis after a heart attack is more than 20-fold higher in smokers with exhaled carbon monoxide levels above 13 ppm, indicating heavy smoking and inhalation of smoke.

Passive smoking exposure during childhood increased the association between RA risk and adult active smoking. In smokers who had childhood passive exposure to smoke, the hazard ratio was 1.73 ...

Moreover, 15% of individuals were active smokers at diagnosis, highlighting the importance of quitting the habit, especially after being diagnosed with cancer. In an interview with CURE, Dr. Daniel J.

“While there was considerably less in homes once an active smoker moved out, there was still 10 to 20 percent of what was found while the smoker still lived there.” ...

Our reasoning for withholding surgery for active smokers is the continued scientific evidence that smokers have a higher rate of morbidity and mortality after total joint arthroplasty than nonsmokers.

However, he’s maintaining his good habit of getting annually screened and recommends other smokers, active or not, to do the same. “I would go for it,” Hoffner said.