Smoking is a harmful habit that affects not only the smoker but also those around them, particularly children. The impact of secondhand smoke on children’s health is profound, with the lungs being one ...

Feeling breathless all day can be linked to smoking, a major cause of lung damage, COPD, and lung cancer. Cigarette smoke ...

Shortly before COVID-19 and the outcry for hospital ventilators, many public health officials were focused on the young vapers who ended up needing critical care due to a mysterious new lung ailment. ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterium that can infect the upper respiratory tract and cause pneumonia, as well as infections in other parts of the body such as the bloodstream (bacteremia), lining ...

If you're a smoker, you may know you should stop. That's a good start toward quitting. But you need a powerful reason to quit for good. Knowing the truth about how smoking harms your health may be ...

A coronavirus infection can mow down the forests of hairlike cilia that coat our airways, destroying a crucial barrier to keeping the virus from lodging deep in the lungs. Normally, those cilia move ...

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us vulnerable to infection. In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that ...

>> I SMOKED ROUGHLY 10 YEARS. NOLAN: BUT SAM PIKE MADE A DECISION TO QUIT WHEN -- >> I HAD A YOUNG CHILD. NOLAN: PIKE SAYS HE TOOK A SMOKING CESSATION CLASS AT SPARTANBURG REGIONAL, AND THEN WENT ON ...