A woman, her hair uncovered, ignites a cigarette using a burning photo of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This ...

Younger women with disabilities are significantly more likely to smoke than non-disabled women in the same age group. A national survey conducted by the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities ...

Ask most American women to name the disease that scares them most, and they’ll answer without hesitation: “Breast cancer.” But while breast cancer maintains a deadly toll, the nation’s female ...

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

Though the dangers of smoking during pregnancy to both mother and baby are well known, just over 7 percent of women still light up while pregnant, a new government report shows. Younger and less ...

Introducing #NewportNancy, the latest hashtag star, who called the police on a black woman for smoking in a parking garage. The incident set off the new trend, #SmokingWhileBlack. On Sunday, Stacy ...

Cigarette smoking and a family history of alcoholism both alter how women perceive sweet foods and what foods they crave, according to studies conducted by two researchers from the Monell Chemical ...