At the end 2020, Health Affairs published a key, annual report highlighting ongoing growth in health care spending from a team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This research showed ...

The daunting challenge of quitting smoking just became a lot harder. On April 1, the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health was eliminated in cuts ordered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next. In recent years, scientists have identified ...

In a recent study published in eClinicalMedicine, researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that compared newly emerged e-health interventions with conventional smoking ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Smoking rates are 30% among construction workers vs. 15% among the general population. The goal of the grant is ...

We’ve known for decades that smoking leads to serious health problems including cancer, lung and heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Despite the health risks, quitting smoking is a significant ...

People born after 2008 face a lifetime ban on buying cigarettes under controversial new laws, raising the prospect of adult smokers being asked for ID well into middle age. At its core, the proposed ...