While overall smoking rates are falling in the United States, a new study points to one exception: Young women who often opt for "very light" smoking. The study defined a very light habit as smoking ...

For a large swath of young American women, light smoking is growing in popularity, according to a new study. In new research published in Preventing Chronic Disease, researchers from the University of ...

Smoking even 1 to 10 cigarettes per day can lead to twice the risk for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) compared with nonsmokers, and this risk increases as smoking amounts increase — and jumps even more ...

Smoking is bad for your heart, especially if you are a young woman. Women under 50 who smoke may face the highest risk of a serious type of heart attack compared to men, according to a new study ...

Jantra Coll, a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology, began smoking four years ago to cope with the stress of her studies. She says, of course, that she knows smoking causes lung cancer. "I think ...

Women with AIDS, who tend to be urban and poor, get less benefit from medicines for the disease if they smoke, no matter if they smoke a lot or a little, researchers have found. The study of 924 women ...

THURSDAY, July 21, 2016 -- Strokes characterized by bleeding inside the lining of the brain are more common among smokers, especially women, researchers report. These serious strokes -- called ...

Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm--a weakened bulging artery--in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of ...

Female smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer now than a few decades ago, a new study says. In the 1960s, female smokers were 2.7 times more likely to die from lung cancer compared with women ...