Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

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 ...

UK policymakers are being warned that restricting nicotine pouches could deprive women of an innovation linked to one of the ...

Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more -- ...

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 ...

LOOSE Women star Coleen Nolan puffs on a ciggy — after fronting an anti-smoking campaign. Coleen, 60, kicked her 40-year ...

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) ...

Lung cancer is quietly rewriting its own rulebook. Once labelled an elderly male smoker’s disease, it is now increasingly affecting women under 50, many of whom have never smoked a cigarette in their ...

In Croatia, the smoking rate was 36.7% in 2020, with the majority of smokers in the 25-44 age group, making it one of the countries with high female smoking rates. Although smoking prevalence among ...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found that women smokers who experienced an increase in depressive symptoms during smoking-cessation treatment may be more likely to relapse. However, a ...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health discovered that smoking may be a prerequisite for a particularly bad kind of lung cancer, a cancer that women are three times more likely than men ...