Understand how smoking damages every major organ system and discover science-backed strategies to quit for improved health ...

When you light up, smoke inhaled through the lungs travels via their tiny air sacs to the bloodstream and is then transported to the body's vital organs, including the brain and nervous system.

Tobacco smoke produces carbon monoxide, a highly poisonous gas which combines with haemoglobin in the blood and makes breathing difficult. This reduces the body's ability to carry oxygen ...

Live fast, face health issues young. People who had an unhealthy relationship with smoking, drinking and exercise early in life ended up on the fast track to mental and physical health troubles by ...

WORRYING about your health after a night out or weekend on the sofa probably sounds like an old person’s game. But scientists have found we might suffer sooner than we think from the impact ...

The vaccine is designed to stimulate the immune system to generate antibodies that would latch on to nicotine in a smoker's body and prevent it from ever entering the brain. The vaccine maker ...

In order to learn more, NewsCenter 5 spoke to Dr. Paul Dellaripa, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who talked about the impact of wildfire smoke on the human body.