Even one cigarette can affect the body shortly after the first puff.

On International No Smoking Day - and every day - there’s an opportunity to pause and ask: is it worth inhaling this again?

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Cigarettes seem to be having a cultural comeback. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the ’90s and 2000s, ...

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A new laboratory study found that cigarette smoke sharply disrupted lung cell defenses, while e-cigarette vapor showed no significant damage in the same model, highlighting important differences but ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...