Stroke risk from smoking partner

Second hand smoke has been linked to disease Being married to a smoker will significantly raise your risk of stroke, even if you don’t smoke yourself, say researchers. The Harvard University team looked at records of more than 16,000 people. The American Journal of Preventative Medicine study found the risk rose by up to 72% [...]

Secondhand Smoke Inhalation Down

(ATLANTA) — Nearly half of nonsmoking Americans are still breathing in cigarette fumes, but the percentage has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, according to a government study released Thursday. A main reason for the decline in secondhand smoke is the growing number of laws and policies that ban smoking in workplaces, bars, restaurants and [...]

Is the Damage from Smoking Permanent?

Tens of millions of Americans have quit smoking cigarettes. The benefits of quitting — no matter what your age — are prodigious. Risks of heart disease and stroke plummet. So does the risk of lung cancer, along with cancers of the mouth, throat, bladder, cervix and pancreas. But can the damage from smoking ever be [...]

Stopping smoking cuts women’s early death risk within 5 years

WASHINGTON — Women who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk of early death and cardiovascular disease just five years after they quit, according to a new study released in the United States.The risk of death from smoking-related cancers also declines by about 20 percent over the same period, according to the authors of the study [...]

Obesity, smoking cut many U.S. women’s life expectancy

WASHINGTON — Life expectancy has declined for many women in the United States, largely due to smoking-related diseases and obesity, a study published Tuesday showed. Nearly one in five U.S. women saw the number of years they are expected to live decline or hold steady, starting in the 1980s, showed the joint study by the [...]

A billion deaths

WORLDWIDE, a billion people will die from smoking this century, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking kills. It is that plain and simple. There is no more doubt today that tobacco (cigarette smoking) is the predominant cause of lung cancer, besides other malignancies and cardiovascular diseases that maim, kill men and women and hurt [...]