The cost of providing healthcare services to smokers and obese people is substantially higher than for nonsmokers and non-obese people, according to a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study.

While smoking is a key risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), significant prevalence also exists among nonsmokers, highlighting the need for broader public health strategies.

Approximately half of US adult smokers tried to quit in 2022, but fewer than 40% used counseling or medication, and half received assistance or advice about quitting from clinicians, based on a review ...

Smoking can increase the risk of lower back pain that requires spinal surgery, according to a study published in The Spine Journal. Researchers looked at cases of lumbar spinal stenosis — a common ...

Training health professionals in stop-smoking techniques helps encourage health professionals to ask patients if they are smoking. If a patient is smoking, health professionals are then equipped with ...

The Lone Star State has especially high insurance and secondhand smoke penalties. See how the numbers add up over a lifetime.

While the cause of lung diseases like lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has long been linked with smoking ...

In Latin America, though overall smoking rates have declined, nondaily and low-intensity smoking are increasingly common, and tobacco-cessation resources remain underdeveloped in many countries.