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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current tobacco smoking vs. nonsmoking raised the likelihood for an asthma attack. Patients with lower odds for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eva Epker covers what to know about and how to improve women's health. Historically, lung cancer was known as a men’s disease, due ...

A recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine revealed an increase in lung cancer cases among non-smokers, ...

Dana Reeve's announcement and Peter Jennings' death are casting a spotlight on a dirty secret about lung cancer: You don't have to be a smoker to get it. This year, deaths from lung cancer will exceed ...

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) ...