What's responsible for the sharp decline in smoking prevalence? The 13 percent smoking rate among 18-to-24-year olds last year is almost half as it was a decade ago. And the inescapable fact is that e ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. A massive nationwide study shows that lighting up before age 20 leaves a lasting cardiovascular ...

Smoking rates among U.S. adults have hit an all-time low, according to new federal data. Approximately 14% of American adults said they were smokers last year, according to data from the Centers for ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — How much do teens smoke? When it comes to measuring teen smoking trends, many public health agencies rely too heavily on reports of monthly cigarette use, a broad statistic that makes ...

Despite killing 6 million people each year, tobacco use is still rampant worldwide, according to the new edition of the Tobacco Atlas, a report from the American Cancer Society and the World Lung ...

Fifty years after the U.S. Surgeon General first warned of the health effects of smoking, a new analysis from the University of Washington shows that the number of smokers worldwide — and the number ...

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 file photo two women smoke at a downtown street in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is taking place.

Long before teens are old enough to start their first jobs, smoke-free workplace laws could still play a part in decreasing youth smoking trends, according to new research. In a study published in ...

In preparation for World No Tobacco Day 2017 on Wednesday, the World Health Organization highlighted the dangers of tobacco use as one of the biggest public health threats in the world. » RELATED: How ...

"Our findings, grounded in a deeper analysis of the data, represent good news," Kozlowski says, "and have important implications for tobacco research and monitoring related trends. "We found a ...