Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm--a weakened bulging artery--in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of ...

Women who smoke are no more likely to develop lung cancer than men who smoke. Women who have never smoked, however, do seem to be at higher risk of developing the cancer than men who have never smoked ...

Women are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health discovered that smoking may be a prerequisite for a particularly bad kind of lung cancer, a cancer that women are three times more likely than men ...

High-risk adults with active thyroid eye disease, such as smokers, women and older adults, experienced a reduction in outward bulging of the eye at 24 weeks that was similar to adults at lower risk ...

Tobacco companies did elaborate research on women to figure out how to hook them on smoking — even toying with the idea of chocolate-flavored cigarettes that would curb appetite, according to a new ...