(Reuters Health) – Many people in a recent study said they’d tried to find out what chemicals are in tobacco products or smoke, but most were not familiar with components other than nicotine.

If you’re looking for an explanation as to why cigarette smoke results in more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, look no further than its ingredients.

Cigarettes contain many dangerous chemicals. Some occur naturally in tobacco, and others are formed when processing tobacco into cigarettes. When a cigarette is burnt, it releases thousands more ...

Extensive epidemiological data clearly links cigarette smoking with lung cancer, due to the presence of cancer-causing chemicals called carcinogens in cigarette smoke.

A lighter smoker who smokes immediately upon waking may face higher risks than someone who smokes more but later in the day - ...

What exactly is the point of cigarette filters? - Cigarette butts are the single most littered item on the planet, with an ...

A new study warns that thirdhand smoke harms children, revealing significant tobacco exposure among kids, even when parents deny it.

EXHIBIT A: While in Costa Rica, we were at an Airbnb when my son saw something on an outdoor coffee table. “What’s that, a cigarette thingee?” What he was referring to was an ashtray. When I ...

About 19 percent of high schoolers believed e-cigarette smoke is water, 23 percent though e-cigarettes was not a tobacco product, and 43 percent thought they were safer than cigarettes.

Cigarette filters don’t make smoking safer — they may even make it more dangerous. Yet these plastic butts are the world’s ...

REUTERS HEALTH — Many people in a recent study said they’d tried to find out what chemicals are in tobacco products or smoke, but most were not familiar with components other than nicotine. Surveyed ...