Smoking can harm your digestive system in many ways. It weakens the sphincter and allows stomach acid to flow backward into your esophagus.
Ninety percent of new smokers are children and teenagers. In many cases, they are replacing the smokers who quit or died prematurely from a smoking-related disease.
Did you know that smoking cigarettes can make your asthma worse?
Smoking tops the list of risk factors for heart disease. Learn more about how smoking affects your heart--as well as helpful tips to quit smoking.
Read on for tips to help keep your children from smoking.
Diseases caused by smoking kill more than 480,000 people in the U.S. each year. Here's a look at the risks linked to smoking, as well as information to help you quit.
Smoking damages your arteries, and it’s thought that the damaged arteries in the discs and joints in your back may lead to pain and injury.
Lung cancer is a cancer that starts in the lungs. The major cause of lung cancer is smoking cigarettes. Learn about risk factors for lung cancer by taking this short assessment.
Secondhand smoke is the smoke you are exposed to when someone nearby is smoking. It includes the smoke exhaled by the smoker, and the smoke given off directly by the burning tobacco.
Follow these suggestions to help you kick the habit, again--this time, for good.
If you can make it through this first day and this first week, when nicotine withdrawal symptoms are at their worst, you will be on your way to success.
Detailed information on the medical management of vascular conditions. Includes a description of the vascular system, risk factors for vascular conditions, causes of vascular conditions, and medical management of risk factors.
There isn't much good that can be said about smoking. Now, on a positive note, do you know how much money you can save if you quit smoking today?
Don't smoke during your pregnancy and limit how much time you spend in environments where there is secondhand smoke.
Talking with your child about drugs, alcohol and tobacco is hard. But you can't afford to ignore these topics. Kids learn about these substances and feel pressure to use them at a very young age.
Major health concerns have been raised about e-cigarettes. Here's what you need to know.
A risk factor is anything that may increase your chance of having a disease. Learn which risk factors are linked with bladder cancer.