For the first time, the World Health Organization has released a set of guidelines to help the 750 million tobacco users across the globe who want to break the habit. The recommendations urge health ...

Only a fraction of people at high risk for lung cancer are getting screened for the disease even though it kills more in the United States than breast, colorectal and prostate cancers combined. New ...

MONTPELLIER, France — The first expert consensus on smoking and diabetes, co-authored by the Francophone Diabetes Society (SFD) and the French Society for the Study of Nicotine Addiction (SFT), was ...

NRT duration (two vs eight weeks), and social determinants screening with referral, enabling comparative cost-effectiveness ...

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.

Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in Canada; it is highly addictive and hard to stop. Recognizing these challenges, a new guideline from the Canadian Task Force ...

The use of smoking cessation medications during the first trimester of pregnancy posed no greater risk for major congenital malformations (MCMs) in infants than smoking, based on a meta-analysis of ...

A majority of adult smokers in the United States want to kick the habit, but only half of them try, and less than 10% are successful, according to a new national study released Thursday. Experts said ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately 53,000 of about 4.3 million smokers developed lung cancer. The cohort also included 6,351 lung ...

Two everyday habits, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption, account for a staggering share of cancers that could be avoided entirely. Together, these behaviors sit at the center of the preventable ...