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Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session,...
Researchers at the University of Southern California looked at more than 17,000 brain scans to see if daily smoking and drinking advanced brain age. The study found that every gram of alcohol consumed...
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A luxury cigar company from Mozambique is looking to challenge Cuba as...
Bongani Cigars is a Mozambique-based firm that considers itself Africa's first luxury cigar brand.Workers for Bongani hand-roll 10,000 cigars every month with locally grown tobacco.A typical Bongani...
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Juul took out ads on Nickelodeon, and even its board of directors thought the...
A new lawsuit says, in 2015, Juul advertised on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Seventeen Magazine and College Confidential, a forum for teens to talk about college rankings and SAT scores. Juul...
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Men represent the majority of coronavirus cases so far. Researchers think...
Early research has shown that the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more men than women. A recent study of nearly 140 coronavirus patients showed the virus was most likely...
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People who vape show DNA changes similar to smokers and that are linked to...
A University of Southern California study has found that vapers exhibit similar chemical modifications to people who smoke cigarettes – modifications commonly found in nearly all types of human...
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It's been 20 years since smoking was completely banned on all US flights....
Smoking and airplanes once went hand in hand but the practice is now largely banned the world over. US government regulations on smoking on airplanes first began in the 1970s and culminated in smoking...
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COVID-19 is a '1-2-3-punch' disease: Doctors describe how the coronavirus...
Most people who get sick with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, experience mild symptoms and will fully recover.However, some people are more likely to have severe lung...
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France has banned online sales of nicotine substitutes after a study showed...
France has banned online sales of nicotine substitutes, and limited sales in pharmacies.The idea is to prevent a run on nicotine replacements, after a widely reported study from a Paris hospital found...
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The coronavirus pandemic has urged many smokers to quit. Here's how you can...
Amy Harrington is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.She says many of her patients who smoke or vape are deciding to quit because of the coronavirus...
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WHO: Smoking cigarettes won't protect you from the coronavirus
An April study out of France suggested that smokers are less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than non-smokers. But in a media briefing May 8, a World Health Organization leader said the research...
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1 in 3 young adults are vulnerable to severe coronavirus infections, a new...
One in three young adults have at least one risk factor that could result in severe COVID-19 infections, a new study found.The researchers determined that smoking was the most prevalent risk factor for...
View ArticleWhy some people go gray in their 20s, according to a dermatologist
Summary List PlacementFollowing is a transcript of the video.Graham Flanagan: Look at that silver fox. So distinguished, so sophisticated. Wow! But what if I told you that this guy was a millennial?...
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A childhood vaccine available since 1979 has been linked to less severe...
Summary List PlacementPeople whose immune systems responded strongly to a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may be less likely to become severely ill if they are infected with the new coronavirus,...
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A 25-year-old set her eyes on taking over the high-end smoking accessories...
Summary List PlacementWhen Chiara di Carcaci started her career in the fashion industry, she picked up on something ironic: sure, there's lots of glitz and glamour, including a lot of people who smoke....
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New Jersey is prioritizing cigarette smokers for COVID-19 vaccines because of...
Summary List PlacementOfficials are scrambling to speed-up COVID-19 vaccinations across the US, but a complicated set of guidelines regarding who should get priority have stymied states' efforts to...
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Altria extends losses as Biden administration considers forcing cigarette...
Summary List PlacementShares of Altria shares stretched losses early Tuesday following a report that the Biden administration may require cigarette and tobacco companies to cut down the amount of...
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US tobacco giant Reynolds American just spent $16 million on politics as...
Summary List PlacementAmerica's second-largest tobacco company burned through over $16 million in political donations in 2020, a show of force that previews the difficulty the Biden Administration...
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Cops tasing and beating teens over vaping is what happens when everything's a...
Summary List PlacementWe shouldn't be shocked by the viral video of an unarmed young man— arms raised and clearly no threat to anyone — being tased and hog-tied by police.Nor should we be shocked by a...
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Philip Morris International CEO says cigarettes should be banned and the...
Summary List PlacementThe chief executive of Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes outside the US, said his company would stop selling cigarettes in the UK within a decade.CEO...
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Philip Morris International's CEO says cigarettes, including Marlboros,...
Summary List PlacementThe CEO of Philip Morris International, the tobacco giant that makes and sells Marlboro cigarettes for customers outside the US, said in an interview over the weekend that the...
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