A newly discovered brain circuit may explain why women tend to become hooked on nicotine more quickly than men. Smoking remains a leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, ...

Smoke compounds don’t leave women’s bodies after smoking. When women smoke, research shows that nicotine can be found in their cervical mucus. Smoking typically disrupts ovulation. Without a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found a significantly increased adjusted risk for COPD diagnosis among women vs. men. Women had a ...

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 research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate ...

May 9 (UPI) --Smoking can't explain why women are more at risk for COPD, a new study says. Women are about 50% more likely than men to develop COPD even though they are less likely to smoke, ...

A recent study from Rutgers found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual smokers–and especially queer women smokers–use menthol cigarettes at higher rates than heterosexual smokers, reported News Medical.