The US surgeon general released a report Tuesday calling smoking and its effects an epidemic among women and blaming the tobacco industry for targeting younger women, Paul Moniz reports. The ...

More women are lighting up cigarettes around the world even as the smoking rate declines for men, activists attending an anti-smoking conference said Thursday.

Contrary to common belief, women smokers are not more likely than men to get lung cancer, researchers report.

Marcus studied 281 healthy but sedentary smokers and found that women who exercised vigorously were twice as likely to quit and gained half as much weight as women who did not exercise.

WASHINGTON — Heightened odds for an asthma attack appeared among current tobacco smokers, women and those with a low education level, according to data presented at the American Academy of ...

Women who smoke are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer as men, a news study finds.

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the ...