Smoking significantly reduces life expectancy and quality, with men losing 17 minutes and women 22 minutes per cigarette.

AI chatbots can offer helpful quitting advice to smokers more often than not. But as per research, they still serve ...

A test chatbot giving a smoking cessation-related query ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the quitSTART app, which offers tailored guidance, inspiring words ...

Regular checkups are an essential part of maintaining good health.Annual wellness visits focus on preventive care, helping ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Georgia is spending 4% of what the feds suggest it should on anti-tobacco efforts, a new report says. Why it matters: Cigarette smoking remains the country's leading cause of ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Massachusetts is spending one-fifth of what the feds suggest it should on anti-tobacco efforts, a new report says. Why it matters: Cigarette smoking remains the country's ...

People in rural areas are at greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to a variety of factors. We explain why.

Allocate state funding of $14.6 million for the Arkansas Tobacco Prevention and Cessation ... Adult smoking and tobacco use data in the report comes from the CDC’s 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies have altered or removed hundreds of pages of HIV-related information on their websites, part of a government-wide purge of ...

No, it isn’t safe to use cannabis during pregnancy. Cannabis (otherwise known as weed, marijuana and hash) can cross the placenta to your baby, so it can affect them directly. In other words, when you ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Ohio has budgeted about $8 million toward tobacco control programs in fiscal year 2025. Why it matters: That's a tiny fraction of the $132 million that the Centers for Disease ...