The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.

Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., according to the CDC Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

It is well known that smoking negatively affects the lungs, but its impact on the blood vessels and the heart is also dangerous. Tobacco smoke has thousands of chemicals with the capacity to harm the ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Rare genetic variants in a little-studied nicotine receptor subunit are linked to markedly lower ...

A new study of smokers finds that currently smoking is associated with a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, but quitting smoking was associated with a lower risk of death.

Parkinson's paradox, linking current smoking to lower disease risk but linking quitting to lower all-cause mortality.

Smoking cigarettes has long been linked to health issues involving the mouth, lungs and chest. However, a new study has found another negative effect of the harmful habit — this time, involving a ...

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy that contain the active ingredient semaglutide may also help people quit smoking, a new study says. The research, published in the journal Annals of Internal ...

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person's immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they've quit, a new study found.Video above: ...