Exercise can help smokers quit because it makes cigarettes less attractive. A new study shows for the first time that exercise can lessen the power of cigarettes and smoking-related images to grab the ...

If dying a painful and horrible death wasn't enough to deter you from smoking cigarettes, a new study shows smoking will also salt your game. Yep, that's right. In addition to potentially giving you ...

The silver screen of Hollywood past often included white plumes of smoke as men and women lit each other’s cigarettes and puffed on cigars in so many major films. Flash forward 50 years and you are ...

Cigarettes would contain less addictive nicotine — making them less attractive to smokers — under an "unprecedented" plan the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. Stripping cigarettes of ...

President Joe Biden’s administration in December pressed the brakes on a plan to ban menthol cigarettes. They are popular with Black smokers but have been found by federal health officials to be ...

Some smokers fear that quitting will result in losing friends, but the opposite seems to be true, according to a new study. Smokers may worry that trying to quit will alienate them from other smokers, ...

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