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Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Smoking and Bladder Cancer

Learn how smoking and vaping affect your risk of developing bladder cancer

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Lung Cancer Kills an Alarming Number of Women — But There’s Hope

There are many misconceptions about risk factors and treatment options for lung cancer

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Foods High in Added Fats and Refined Carbs Are Like Cigarettes – Addictive and Unhealthy

Leading scientists from around the globe identified unhealthy diets as a greater risk to human health than unsafe sex and alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined

Struggling to Quit Smoking? Your Genes Might Be at Fault

Struggling to Quit Smoking? Your Genes Might Be at Fault

How environment, behavior and genetics affect nicotine dependence

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​E-Cigarettes Get FDA Approval: 5 Essential Reads on the Harms and Benefits of Vaping

The authorization only relates to tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes and not the wider range of flavors that critics say are aimed at younger consumers

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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Preterm Birth

1 baby in 10 is born too soon in the U.S. each year. Is your baby at risk?

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Sleep Apnea Is More Common Than You Think — and More Serious

Don't dismiss poor sleep as a normal part of aging. It could be sleep apnea, a disorder with serious health consequences.

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Vape Sellers Are Using Popular Music Videos to Promote E-Cigarettes to Young People – and It’s Working

Teens and young adults spend several hours a day looking at their phones and watching videos, many of which might contain product placements for vaping.

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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

What do you need to know about diabetes and heart disease? Nieca Goldberg, M.D., suggests questions to ask if you have either or both conditions.

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Is It Hemorrhoids or Something Worse?

How to know when to talk to your doctor

Seat Belts and Smoking Rates Show People Eventually Adopt Healthy Behaviors – but It Can Take Time We Don’t Have During a Pandemic

Seat Belts and Smoking Rates Show People Eventually Adopt Healthy Behaviors – but It Can Take Time We Don’t Have During a Pandemic

Changes in societal behavior that benefit public health occur in fits and starts – and never fast enough for the individuals who fall victim before society comes around

Put That Cigarette Out

Put That Cigarette Out

Smoking is dangerous, but quitting's not easy. Here are some tips for how to quit for good.

Vaping No Better Than Cigarettes for Your Lungs, Study Suggests

Vaping No Better Than Cigarettes for Your Lungs, Study Suggests

If you think vaping is less likely to harm your lungs than traditional cigarettes, think again.

Vaping and Depression: What’s the Connection?

Vaping and Depression: What's the Connection?

Vaping, already linked to lung damage, may also have harmful psychological effects, a new study suggests.

Vitamin E Acetate Is Leading Suspect in Vaping-Linked Lung Illnesses

Vitamin E Acetate Is Leading Suspect in Vaping-Linked Lung Illnesses

A new federal report points to an oily chemical known as vitamin E acetate as the likely culprit behind more than 2,000 cases of severe lung illness among vapers.

Nasal Swab Could Help Gauge Smokers' Odds for Lung Cancer

Nasal Swab Could Help Gauge Smokers' Odds for Lung Cancer

Could this help separate high-risk patients from low-risk patients? Learn more about the research.

Vaping is Bad for Everyone, and It’s Especially Unhealthy for Children

Vaping is Bad for Everyone, and It's Especially Unhealthy for Children

Vaping and e-cigarettes have become an epidemic. This is a serious public health and women’s health problem because many adolescents and young people have started vaping recently, and vaping is now associated with deaths and of severe lung injuries.

Cases of Lung Injury Tied to Vaping Keep Rising

Cases of Lung Injury Tied to Vaping Keep Rising

Some people have even had so much trouble breathing that they wound up on a ventilator in their hospital's intensive care unit (ICU).

FDA Reports More Seizures Among Vapers

FDA Reports More Seizures Among Vapers

There have been 118 more reports of e-cigarette users suffering seizures since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first warned the public about the danger in April.

Even 'Good' Levels of Air Pollution Are Bad for Smokers

Even 'Good' Levels of Air Pollution Are Bad for Smokers

Even low levels of air pollution can pose a threat to the lungs of cigarette smokers.

Parent Alert! Your Kid May Be Vaping More Than Tobacco

Parent Alert! Your Kid May Be Vaping More Than Tobacco

Parents need to be concerned about what kids are using in vaping devices (also known as e-cigarettes) since they can contain marijuana and not just nicotine and flavorings.

Pediatricians Put It Bluntly: Motherhood And Marijuana Don't Mix

Pediatricians Put It Bluntly: Motherhood and Marijuana Don't Mix

Women who are pregnant of breastfeeding their infants should avoid marijuana since THC (one of the active compounds in marijuana) can easily cross the placenta and accumulate in the brain and fat of the fetus, and this can harm the fetus or their baby.