Young smokers should quit before turning 44 if they want to live nearly as long as those who never lit up, a new study said. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that people who never smoked live an average of ten years longer than lifetime smokers. For the study, […]

Smokers who quit before the age of 40 can live nearly as long as those who never smoked at all, a recent analysis of U.S. health records has found. In the United States, cigarette smoking causes about 1 in every 5 deaths or about 443,000 deaths annually, this includes deaths caused by secondhand smoke. On […]

On May 31st we celebrate World No Tobacco Day. During this day, we turn our attention to the ill effects of tobacco use and promote tobacco abstinence. Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable deaths. Six million people die from tobacco use annually. Abstaining from tobacco use for one day won’t do anything […]