For women, the attraction of smoking may be the perception of equality. Over the past 50 years smoking has been marketed toward women. About 19 percent of U.S. women smoke compared to 23 percent of ...

Temple Health leads research showing how women and non-smokers face rising risks, and how new treatments are changing the ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

The risks of smoking to the heart are pretty well known. Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a heart attack, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart disease ...

Younger women with disabilities are significantly more likely to smoke than non-disabled women in the same age group. A national survey conducted by the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities ...

Women who smoke appear to be more susceptible to lung cancer than men who smoke, though women smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer-related death, according to a study in the July 12 issue of JAMA.

Smoking hurts everyone, but women under the age of 50 who smoke are at four to five times greater risk for having a heart attack, according to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo. He says most people ...

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

Jantra Coll, a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology, began smoking four years ago to cope with the stress of her studies. She says, of course, that she knows smoking causes lung cancer. "I think ...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters Life!) - Women who smoke cigarettes are more likely to develop heart disease than men who smoke, with the risk for women increasing every year that they smoke, according to a ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A new group of Pennsylvanians can now receive the coronavirus vaccine. That group includes smokers, people who are obese, and pregnant women. According to the Pennsylvania ...

Research from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center shows lung cancer is being diagnosed more and more in ...