Women who quit smoking before age 40 reduce their risk of dying by nearly 90 percent; those who quit before age 30 can remove up to 97 percent of the risk of premature death, according to researchers ...

Women are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

Ladies, want another reason to quit smoking? A study presented last week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America suggests that women who smoke are twice as likely as male ...

TORONTO – Women who smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day – or even less – have a significantly higher risk of sudden cardiac death than those who never smoked, researchers say. But butting out for ...

A recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine revealed an increase in lung cancer cases among non-smokers, ...

Yale researchers have pinpointed a different brain response between male and female smokers by analyzing dynamic brain scans. This study marks the first time that PET (positron emission tomography) ...

Imaging reveals swelling of the wall of the abdominal aorta. Smoking raises the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm events nearly ninefold in postmenopausal women and negatively affects cognition in ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...