In the early 1950s, cigarette companies in the US were starting to have a problem. For the first time, large-scale scientific studies were showing a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. The ...

The damage that smoking can do has been detailed quite thoroughly. Financially, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average cost of a pack of cigarettes is $8.39, and a ...

Dear Doctors: My understanding is that nicotine and tar are what hurt you when you smoke cigarettes. But you recently said there’s also carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, and that it’s even more ...

Although the major cancer-causing substance in cigarette tar has not yet been identified, so much is now known about it that smoking could be rendered relatively harmless—without waiting for the ...

Smoking is a highly prevalent habit, but unlike its popularity, the consequences are far from desirable. Cigarettes contain a frightening cocktail of over 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds known to ...

From improvements to your skin to a lower risk of heart disease happens to your body in the hours, days, weeks and months ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on a new series of lawsuits accusing tobacco companies of misleading smokers into thinking that 'light' cigarettes are less harmful than other kinds. Even though 'light' ...

Burned by research linking smoking with lung cancer and by congressional charges that many filters actually filter very little (TIME, March 3), tobaccomen are quietly reducing nicotine and tars in ...

March 18, 2003 — Regular use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces the risk of lung cancer for former or current smokers, according to the results of a case-control study reported ...