Browsing: Smoking

Smoking is bad for you and you shouldn’t do it. You know both of these things, of course: you’ve been told them in school, on TV…

Teenage girls in Europe have the highest rate of tobacco use in their age group around the world, while one in seven adolescents across the continent…

Vaping in cars carrying anyone under 18 will be banned in England under government plans to reduce the harm caused by smoking and e-cigarettes.The move is…

More socially acceptable than smoking – yet just as addictive – vaping has become the UK’s default way of consuming nicotine.Figures published by the Office for…

More than 1,200 public health leaders have called for the tobacco and vapes bill to be passed swiftly through parliament to “protect future generations”.They said in…

Cigarette filters do not work and are a major source of plastic pollution that should be banned by the UK government, experts have said.In an editorial…

People who stop smoking in middle age can reduce their cognitive decline so dramatically that within 10 years their chances of developing dementia are the same…

Sample collectionTwo epithelial brushes (2–3 cm2) from the bladder top (dome) and the bladder floor (trigone) were obtained from 53 people without known bladder pathology and no…

The Spanish government has approved a draft tobacco law that would ban smoking and vaping on bar and restaurant terraces, prohibit minors from using vapes and…

August 26, 20253 min readRepeated Heat Waves Can Age You as Much as Smoking or DrinkingA new long-term study suggests that the more heat waves people…