Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses. This is the finding recently made by a team of scientists at the Institut Pasteur using the Milieu ...

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person's immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they've quit, a new study found.Video above: ...

Smartphone apps help smokers quit at 3 times the rate of no support, but apps using cognitive behavioral therapies are most ...

Over the short- and long-term, smoking cigarettes can raise your blood pressure and increase your risk of hypertension (high blood pressure). In contrast, quitting cigarettes has an almost immediate ...

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Patients who didn’t quit after their diagnosis had a nearly doubled risk of dying within two years, compared to those who did Patients with advanced cancer gained nearly a fully year of additional ...