Fact checked by Jennifer Klump Although a lot fewer people are smoking cigarettes, lung cancer is still the leading cause of ...

The American Cancer Society projects that there will be nearly 60,000 new US cases of oral cavity or oropharyngeal cancer ...

Most people quit smoking when the health and death risks became known, but some still smoke. Some studies show that switching ...

By Will Boggs MD Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar smokers inhale, also alter other properties of smoke and smoking in a way that raises the risk of lung cancer ...

Roughly half of deaths from 12 smoking-related cancers may be linked directly to cigarette use, a U.S. study estimates. While the largest proportion of deaths associated with smoking were for ...

Air pollution is emerging as a major cause of lung cancer in non-smokers, damaging lung tissue much like smoking. Experts ...

By the time the experiment ended, nine of the 40 mice (22.5 percent) exposed to typical e-cigarette vapor developed lung cancer, while only one of the mice in either control group did the same.

Vaping was supposed to help smokers transition away from cancer-causing tobacco, and so reduce the smoking rate. Vapers use e-cigarettes to inhale water vapor that contains nicotine.

E-cigarette users are possibly putting themselves at risk for developing heart disease, lung and bladder cancers, according to a new report. The findings, though preliminary, indicate that the ...

Smokers with cancer who used e-cigarettes along with traditional cigarettes were more dependent on nicotine than those who didn't use the devices, a Memorial Sloan Kettering study found.

Electronic cigarettes should be subject to the same taxes, marketing restrictions and limitations on public use as traditional tobacco products, according to new guidance from cancer experts.