It’s a number to celebrate: 3.9 million. That’s the likely number of Americans saved from lung cancer since 1970 with efforts ...

To vape or not to vape? That is the question sparking a heated debate this week in Geneva where over 1,400 delegates have gathered to discuss the World Health Organization's tobacco control treaty and ...

A year after she quit smoking, Kim Swart thought the half-million cigarettes she smoked between high school and retirement had become a distant memory. Her cough lingered, but she was saving $600 each ...

Each year, The American Cancer Society holds the Great American Smokeout. It centers around one big goal: getting people to stop smoking. Priority Health has some advice if you or someone you love is ...

Dozens of state and local landmarks will be illuminated purple next week on November 20, 2025 as POW’R Against Tobacco along with other local and statewide tobacco prevention programs celebrate the ...

SAN ANTONIO — In the opinion of Heather Goff, MD, MPH, encouraging patients to quit smoking is one of the most impactful and modifiable interventions one can make for patients. Heather Goff, MD, MPH ...

I’ve always been good at quitting obligations (see: piano lessons, ballet classes, infinite sports teams, and, in one memorable instance, a babysitting job that would have required me to fly from New ...

Millions of Americans are about to go hungry thanks to the government shutdown, but Representative Clay Higgins doesn’t seem to care. GOP Representative Clay Higgins—who, like most congressmen, ...

If recipients of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program were looking for a shoulder to lean on it a sympathetic ear, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is not that person. On Thursday, the ...

Republican U.S. Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana is facing backlash online after saying that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who don't have one month of groceries ...

In ongoing efforts to pinpoint the best evidence-based ways to quit smoking, a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher has turned her attention to a tobacco-free product gaining ...

An elderly woman just scored a landmark court win against her neighbor that forces him to stop smoking weed in his own home. Josefa Ippolito–Shepherd, 76, of Washington, DC, said the “feces” or “skunk ...