Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters Life!) - Women who smoke cigarettes are more likely to develop heart disease than men who smoke, with the risk for women increasing every year that they smoke, according to a ...

The research, based on results from the Million Women Study*, is published Online First in The Lancet today [Saturday, October 27] to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Doll, one ...

Yale researchers have pinpointed a different brain response between male and female smokers by analyzing dynamic brain scans. This study marks the first time that PET (positron emission tomography) ...