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

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 ...

Smoking can cause temporary high blood pressure. This is primarily due to the effects of nicotine. People who smoke regularly may spend much of the day with high blood pressure. Research indicates ...

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

California is the first state to take an action against third-hand smoking. To know what it means, what its harmful effects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...