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Vaping with nicotine has become commonplace. It can be used to stop smoking cigarettes, but it has several serious health risks. The long-term effects of vaping are unknown.

For 49 straight days, everyone in Seeley Lake was breathing smoke. A wildfire had ignited outside the small rural community in Montana, and the plume of smoke had parked itself over the houses. Air ...

Gen Z — largely comprised of middle- and high-school students — reported the lowest smoking rates on record in 2024, according to CDC and FDA data, but that trend may be in jeopardy. “Overall, the ...

Starting today, California is taking a stand against thirdhand smoke. While most people are well aware of the health threat of secondhand smoke — what you inhale from someone smoking a cigarette ...

The sight of snuffed cigarette butts in an ashtray might feel jarringly anachronistic these days, given successful efforts to curtail the smelly act for decades. Nonetheless, we're edging toward a ...