Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The common substance in cigarette smoke and snuff is nicotine,” Anna Gunnerbeck, PhD, pediatrician at Astrid ...

You're probably familiar with the dangers of cigarette smoking, but chewing tobacco and snuff are other tobacco products that can have serious health effects, as well. Learn more about the long-term ...

The FDA authorized the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of tobacco giant Altria, to market Copenhagen Classic Snuff as less likely to cause lung cancer than cigarettes. The loose moist ...

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, investigated the incidence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) among users of smokeless tobacco products. The findings ...

The data on the health effects from smoking cigarettes has been clear for decades. Today, tobacco use causes nearly 1 in 5 ...

Far from having adverse effects limited to the mouth, smokeless tobacco affects the normal function of a key family of enzymes found in almost every organ in the body, according to the first report on ...

A charity has highlighted tobacco’s harmful effects on young people. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre shared this information as part of World No Tobacco Day. Established by the World Health ...

Chewing tobacco has long been used in many regions and is often considered less harmful than smoking cigarettes. However, recent research reveals that chewing tobacco can actually cause cancer faster ...

The behavioral and electrophysiological effects of tobacco smoking in a memory-scanning task were investigated in two groups of regular cigarette smokers. After overnight abstinence, subjects ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...