Cigarette smoke disappears within seconds, but its effects can linger for months. Here’s how long nicotine, carbon monoxide and other toxins stay in your body after quitting smoking.

Just days of e-cigarette vapor exposure can injure the lungs' most delicate tissue and leave it more vulnerable to viral infection, according to a study led by National Jewish Health researchers and ...

A study by University of California, Riverside, scientists has found that two toxic chemicals can form when the main ingredient in most e-cigarette fluids is heated, and that these compounds can harm ...

Just days of e-cigarette vapor exposure can injure the lungs' most delicate tissue and leave it more vulnerable to viral infection, according to a ...

Scientific evidence has shown that there is no safe level of exposure to smoke; even brief contact with smoke can increase the risk for respiratory diseases, asthma, allergies, and various types of ...

Your lungs do more than help you breathe. They support you in every step you take, every conversation you have and every moment you spend with the people you love.

“In this study, we investigated the interplay between cigarette smoke, DNA damage and repair, focusing on the Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) protein Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C (XPC).” “In this ...

The lung has always seemed like the obvious casualty in the smoking story. Blackened alveoli, scarred airways, the slow choking of capacity over decades. What nobody suspected, or at least couldn’t ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. They’re often promoted as healthier alternatives to cigarettes, but a recent study has ...

Researchers have concluded that nicotine vapes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers, based on evidence ranging from human biomarkers to animal and laboratory studies. The findings challenge the ...