May 16 -- FRIDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Highlighting the negative impact tobacco use has on cardiovascular health, researchers say that heavy smokers were 2.5 times more likely to die than their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those who smoked more than 20 packs a year had more than four times the risk for cryptogenic ischemic stroke vs.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with melanoma who smoke had an increased risk for melanoma-associated death. The risk is even greater ...

Light ex-smokers quickly reduce CVD risk to levels similar to never-smokers, while heavy ex-smokers take over 25 years to achieve comparable risk levels. The study used data from the Korean National ...

There is a link between non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and smoking. Heavy smoking has an association with NHL, and the link is especially strong with the subtype known as follicular lymphoma. A 2017 ...