The historic toll of smoking is well known – 20 million dead since the ground-breaking surgeon general’s report in 1964, about 2.5 million of whom died from illnesses caused by second-hand smoke ...

Tobacco use is well-known to be a significant health concern. Nevertheless, millions of men and women around the world continue to use tobacco products. Most antitobacco education and advertising ...

Decreases in state spending on anti-smoking programs may be contributing to a leveling-off of a decline in teenage smoking in the United States, according to a federal analysis. See Also... View the ...

More work is needed to stop youth tobacco use, surgeon general reports. March 8, 2012— -- Despite decades of anti-smoking education, one in four U.S. high school seniors still smokes. And three ...

The link between higher education and smoking rates emerges well before students step onto a college campus. Though previous research has demonstrated that adults with college degrees are less likely ...

Teaching teens to see through pro-tobacco messages in the media may be better at preventing youth smoking than just saying no, according to new research. More kids who began the study at least open to ...

State Rep. Gary Pendleton, a Raleigh Republican, calls on the legislature to fund smoking cessation programs during an American Cancer Society rally on Wednesday. Colin Campbell ccampbell@newsobserver ...

Poorly educated adults who smoke face a higher risk of stroke than smokers with a higher education. The combination of smoking and high blood pressure increased stroke risk the most, confirming ...

Parents with lower incomes and educational levels are more likely than higher-paid, better-educated parents to have teenage children who smoke, according to a recent study in Massachusetts. A ...

Objective: Studies in adults have demonstrated that smoking status is associated with dietary quality, with smokers tending to have diets that conform less closely to guidelines on healthy eating than ...