Smoking

Black women who smoked at the time of breast cancer diagnosis had a 52% increased risk for all-cause mortality compared with Black women who never smoked, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

A decline in lifestyle trajectory over time is associated with increased risk for incident ischemic heart disease, according to a study published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Former smokers with COPD who experienced exacerbations had larger lung density declines than those without exacerbations, according to a letter to the editor published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Adults who are not ready to stop using tobacco had greater abstinence rates when treated with varenicline compared with placebo, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

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In patients with COPD who used to smoke, portable air cleaners may improve cardiovascular health, according to a study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Smokers who preferred receiving point-of-care services in Spanish were twice as likely to refrain from smoking cigarettes after 6 months compared with those who preferred English, researchers reported in Annals of Family Medicine.

A dramatic rise in global incidence of early-onset cancers over the past 30 years may be related in part to increased exposure to risk factors at a young age, according to study results published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology,

Smoking intensity was linked with decreased optic nerve vessel density in patients with glaucoma, according to a study in Journal of Glaucoma.