Smoking and Vascular Disease

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 Can Give You Boils!

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...

Effects of Smoking on the Stomach

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...

Long-Term Effects of Second-Hand Smoke

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...

Smoking Bans Improving Kids’ Health

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...

Second Hand Smoke Court Case

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...

Stop The Home Fires Burning

It's hard to know how many cigarette smokers are still out there; some statistics claim that there are more smokers than ever, while other statistics tell us that smoking is on the decline. In any case, cigarette smokers...

Smoking And Early Menopause

Early Menopause Is Linked To Smoking A Norwegian study on the association between smoking and early menopause determined that women who smoke are more likely to begin menopause before the age of 45. This early onset of...