In a blow to those striving to improve physical health, reports reveal that breathing in a polluted city could be equivalent to smoking several cigarettes a day. A research published in The Lancet ...
But within 20 years British doctors had proved that smoking kills. And the Princess only had to look to her own family's medical history to realise she was gambling with her health. Four monarchs ...
Despite all the research and campaigns, huge numbers of children are still smoking and even more vape. Have they been let down by older generations who should know better? I remember as a child ...
According to the NHS, smoking kills about 80,000 people a year in the UK. One patient who benefited from the service, said she "wouldn't have been able to do this on my own". The service's support ...
Tobacco smoking kills up to half of users who do not quit. Tobacco-related lung cancers have been shown to be linked to the accumulation of DNA mutations caused by carcinogens in tobacco smoke.
All of this is despite the fact that anyone born after 1964, when the surgeon general pronounced that smoking causes cancer, should know the habit is just about the worst thing you can do if you want ...