While smoking boosts the likelihood of heart attack in both men and women of all ages, it has a much more powerful effect in younger women, especially those under 50, a new study suggests. For women ...

While overall smoking rates are falling in the United States, a new study points to one exception: Young women who often opt for "very light" smoking. The study defined a very light habit as smoking ...

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 habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

For a large swath of young American women, light smoking is growing in popularity, according to a new study. In new research published in Preventing Chronic Disease, researchers from the University of ...

(Reuters Health) – Women who smoke cigarettes are just as likely as men to develop potentially fatal aneurysms in the main artery leading from the heart, according to a recent study. Guidelines ...

Contrary to common belief, women smokers are not more likely than men to get lung cancer, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. They found that lung cancer is an equal opportunity killer, taking just as ...

Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm--a weakened bulging artery--in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of ...