Arizona students are fighting rising teen tobacco use by learning to educate their friends about the dangers of smoking and ...

After losing thousands of staffers and facing attacks this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hampered in its ability to protect the public from health problems and emergencies.

A decades-old data set tracking the health of new moms and babies was disrupted by CDC layoffs last spring, and there are ...

For more than a century, the tobacco industry has worked relentlessly to lure as many people as possible to its addictive ...

Cigarettes were once unavoidable in the U.S., in restaurants, airplanes, your mom's living room — until health warnings and ...

Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.

A new study found that smoking as few as two cigarettes a day can significantly increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular ...

Three times as many lung cancer deaths could be prevented if everyone eligible for screening got a chest CT scan, a new study ...

Every November, a quiet revolution unfolds across the country and right here in Philadelphia. The Great American Smokeout, held annually on the third Thursday of November, is more than a health ...

While teen smoking drops to under 3%, health experts fear pop culture revival could undo progress as 90% of long-term smokers start before age 18.

LOS ANGELES - Every day, about 3,800 American kids try a cigarette for the first time. A thousand of them will grow up to have a daily smoking habit, and nearly 300 will wind up dead due to a ...