Yes, Smoking Even a Few Cigarettes Here and There Is Harmful
Smoking just a few cigarettes a day can significantly harm your heart. […]
Clever Ways to Beat College Peer Pressure to Drink & Smoke
Are you in college and feel pressure to drink and smoke? Perhaps the pressure is your own stress, or maybe it’s new friends or just the general atmosphere. […]
How Many Never-Smoking Americans Develop Radon Lung Cancer?
Researchers say that radon, not secondhand smoke, is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in people who’ve never smoked. Strangely, public service announcements and awareness campaigns for radon exposure are very scant. [...]
How Many Never-Smokers Who Exercise Get Lung Cancer?
Most fitness enthusiasts don’t smoke, and most smokers aren’t into serious exercise. […]
Why Is Lung Cancer So Difficult to Treat? Surgeon Answers
Lung cancer is one of the most terrifying cancers, one reason being that removing both entire lungs is never an option. It’s hard to treat which is why the five-year survival rate is only 19 [...]
Percentage of a Surgeon’s Lung Cancer Patients Who Smoked
Many smokers never get lung cancer, but then again, most lung cancer patients are smokers. Furthermore, if smokers lived longer, it’s fair to wonder how many would have eventually developed lung cancer. [...]
How Common Is Lung Cancer in Nonsmoking 40’s Women?
Women in their 40’s who’ve never smoked have been diagnosed with lung cancer. […]
Is It Worthwhile for Smokers to Run?
It’s been said that smoking undoes any jogging or running, or that it’s useless to run if you’re a smoker. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can’t really believe that a smoker’s body [...]
Is Just ONE Cigarette a Day Harmful to Your Health?
Are you down to only one cigarette a day and think you're off the hook from any harmful effects? Just how "light" a smoker can you be before this habit starts ruining your body? Some [...]
Just How Bad Is Smoking for Brain Aneurysms?
Maybe you think your smoking will magically escape lung or mouth cancer, but ever consider a brain aneurysm? Smoking is a risk factor for developing an aneurysm. But a study out of the University of [...]
Can Seeing Your Lungs on a CT Scan Help You Quit Smoking?
A CT scan of one’s lungs can motivate smokers to finally kick their cancer causing habit. Perhaps this is because what you can finally see (your lungs) will kick you into high gear to throw [...]
Blood Clot Risk in Smoking Women Using Birth Control Pills
Just how likely can birth control pills cause blood clots in smoking women? You keep hearing about the risk of blood clots in smoking women who use birth control. So here is more detailed information [...]
Why Quitting Smoking after a TIA Is So Important
Do whatever it takes to quit smoking if you’ve had a TIA. Smoking damages the blood vessels in the brain. But not only that, it also causes conditions that are independent risk factors for transient [...]
Teen Girl Weight Loss: Smoking vs. Exercise
Are you a teenage girl thinking of taking up smoking so you can lose weight? Stop! Or you'll dearly regret it later on, not to mention be out of a lot of money. If you’re [...]
Brain Aneurysm Risk & Women: Quit Smoking, Lower Blood Pressure
If a brain aneurysm scares the heck out of you, quit smoking and make sure your blood pressure is normal--especially if you're a woman. Did you know that when a brain aneurysm ruptures, the survival [...]