It is a fact that smoking is harmful and associated with deadly diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Researchers also know that smokers die earlier than non-smokers. But a study that ...

A new personalized assessment tool has been developed that could better predict lung cancer risk in never, light and heavy smokers using a large prospective cohort study. Researchers at The University ...

Smoking, the number one cause of preventable death in the United States, causes 130,000 lung cancer deaths each year. Many smokers are now considering screening with low-dose helical computed ...

Individuals who pick up smoking as teenagers have a much higher risk of becoming heavy smokers as adults. And for some, the risk is even greater – depending on their genetics. A team of researchers ...

Prediction models are needed to identify individuals at high risk for lung cancer who are former smokers and for whom low-dose computed tomography screening is not recommended, according to one study.

According to a new study, teen children whose parents are heavy smokers are more at risk to intergenerational transmission of the behavior. Researchers studied the smoking patterns of parents such as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Community-dwelling older adult smokers for whom annual low-dose CT screening is not recommended had a 10-fold ...

For anyone who thinks that the “I only smoke when I drink” strategy will help them avoid the pitfalls of their pack-a-day friends, we have some bad news. According to new research, heavy cigarette ...