How to Strengthen Your Lungs: Air pollution has increased significantly these days, directly impacting lung health. Excessive smoking and unhealthy eating habits are also damaging the lungs. According ...

The lungs of a person who smokes may be larger, discolored, and inflamed compared to those of a person who does not smoke. The lungs are part of the respiratory system, which takes oxygen in from the ...

Until the early 1900s, lung cancer was relatively rare. But as more people began to smoke, rates of lung cancer rose drastically. Not every person who smokes will develop lung cancer, but smoking ...

Lung cancer rates and deaths have fallen precipitously in recent decades overall — but diagnoses are rising for nonsmokers. (Getty Images) November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, which brings both ...

Dr. Panagis Galiatstatos-Pulmonary and critical care medicine physician, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director of the ...

Smoking cannabis leads to lung damage, but in a different way to tobacco, new research has found. The findings come from the long-running Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, which ...