Smoking can produce multiple negative effects on the stomach and other organs of the digestive tract, leading to pain and discomfort in the abdomen. The harm from smoking may contribute to conditions ...

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

RIKEN scientists uncover how tobacco smoke alters gut bacteria, revealing potential new treatments for some types of ...

Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses. This is the finding recently made by a team of scientists at the Institut Pasteur using the Milieu ...

Health leaders across the North East are supporting plans to create a smoke-free generation with less than one year to go ...

Numerous factors shape how a person’s immune system reacts to infections and other challenges. Age, sex and genetics are fundamental contributors—as the COVID pandemic highlighted. Now a new study ...

Smoking has been associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, and it treated as a causal risk factor for type 2 diabetes in non-pregnant adults. While ACOG and the ADA recommend screening ...

Vaping vendors often sell their products as “healthier” tobacco alternatives or a way to quit cigarettes. However, vapes still have risks and are most beneficial as a step on the journey to becoming ...