The World Health Organization (WHO) recently donated 315,000 NRT patches to the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP). This is enough to provide 4,500 high-risk smokers...
Aside from killing 117,000 Filipinos every year due to cigarettes and second-hand smoke, tobacco-related healthcare costs took away 65.80 percent of the country’s gross domestic product...
Although manufacturers of e-cigarettes tout their products as safer alternatives to cigarette smoking, research has shown that e-cigarettes can be as hazardous as traditional tobacco products...
Touted by makers as a "healthy" alternative to traditional nicotine cigarettes, new research indicates the chemicals found in e-cigarettes disrupt the gut barrier and trigger inflammation...
Daily smoking prevalence among 12th grade boys increased 4.9% annually 1991 to 1998, but saw annual declines of 8% between 1998 and 2006 and 1.6% from...
Recognizing that adult cardiovascular health is influenced by factors across the lifespan including childhood may be important in advocacy initiatives and in implementing interventions to reduce...
Exposure to parental smoking in childhood and adolescence is associated with poorer learning ability and memory in midlife.
People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and people who currently smoke may have higher levels of a molecule, called angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE-2), in...
The life expectancy of the whole population could be improved significantly through helping men and people with a lower level of education, in particular, make better...
People have been asked to not throw their cigarettes out car windows, because it takes years for the butts to degrade.
