Effects of Smoking

The Times of Life for Women Women who experience menopause know that it is a very challenging time of life. Everything changes - sleeping patterns, moods, body shape, body temperature - everything. Women in this...

Heart Diseases Are Extensive Nearly everything you read or hear about concerning the negative effects of smoking cites cancer and heart disease among the associated illnesses. When we think of heart disease, the first words that usually...

Just when you thought the list couldn't get any longer, more links between cigarette smoking and disease pop up. It is no secret that smoking is intrinsically linked to heart attacks. It is also a trigger...

Smoking is associated with a very large number of very bad things. Cancer, emphysema, heart disease, and assorted other diseases can be directly traced back to cigarette smoking. The negative associations are growing as skin...

Most all of us know the hazards of smoking as relates to lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease, after all, more than 400,000 Americans die each year from cigarette smoking, and one in five U.S. deaths are...

Second-hand smoke is a mixture of the smoke which curls up from the burning end of a cigarette as well as that which is blown out into the air by the person smoking; as most...

A new study finds that smoking bans make for fewer hospitalizations for kids with asthma. This discovery suggests that public smoking laws are having a greater impact on health than anyone had guessed. Earlier studies had shown...

A jury in Suffolk County threw out a Boston woman's lawsuit in which she claimed her real estate broker hid the fact that a downstairs neighbor had a smoking habit. This is one of the first...