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(American Thoracic Society) Use of statins may influence susceptibility to or the progression of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in smokers, according to a new study.

(MedPage Today) -- More than two-thirds of smokers say they'd like to quit, but only a small percentage actually do, CDC survey data showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Most smokers who have a stroke have not dropped the habit by one year after the event, which might be related to their intentions to quit before the stroke and the location of the stroke, researchers found.

Forty million smokers around the world could die from TB by 2050, research suggests.

New research shows that smokers tend to have strokes close to one full decade earlier than nonsmokers.

LONDON (AP) -- A pill developed in Bulgaria during the Soviet era shows promise for helping millions of smokers cheaply and safely kick the habit, the first big study of it shows....

(Wiley-Blackwell) Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from lighting up right away.

Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results may help identify smokers who have an especially high risk of developing cancer and would benefit from targeted smoking interventions to reduce their risk.

(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study has found that smokers who take multivitamins offset their healthy behavior by smoking more cigarettes.

(MedPage Today) -- The reason some smokers develop lung diseases and others don't may lie in the length of their telomeres -- and the longer ones are better.

Find out how in this week's installment of tales from the lab.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Celecoxib may emerge as a potent chemopreventive agent for lung cancer, according to a recent study in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.