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Both a chronic productive cough and an intermittent productive cough were linked to poor lung function trajectories spanning from childhood to adulthood, according to study results published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Patients with melanoma who smoke have a higher risk for melanoma-related death, according to a study.

Use of e-cigarettes among youths in the United States peaked in 2019 and has declined in the years since, although not for all groups, a study showed.

Positive associations were found between smoking and risk of developing ALS, with the strongest correlation found among those who actively smoked, according to research from Tobacco Induced Diseases.

Individuals using nicotine e-cigarettes have a higher likelihood of quitting smoking compared with nicotine replacement therapy users, according to data published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Although rates of smoking have steadily declined in recent decades, 34 million Americans still use cigarettes, according to the American Cancer Society, with many of those millions being patients with autoimmune and rheumatic diseases.

Among adolescents, e-cigarette use during late pregnancy was not statistically significantly associated with an increased small for gestational age birth risk, but cigarette use was, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Women who quit smoking and were treated with the GLP-1 receptor agonist dulaglutide were less likely to experience substantial weight gain compared with those who received placebo, according to researchers.

Never-smoker lung cancer survivors face a similar risk for second primary lung cancers as those who have ever smoked, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.