Let’s check what we’ve heard and what we think we know against the science.

From improvements to your skin to a lower risk of heart disease happens to your body in the hours, days, weeks and months ...

Vaping vendors often sell their products as “healthier” tobacco alternatives or a way to quit cigarettes. However, vapes still have risks and are most beneficial as a step on the journey to becoming ...

Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses. This is the finding recently made by a team of scientists at the Institut Pasteur using the Milieu ...

Numerous factors shape how a person’s immune system reacts to infections and other challenges. Age, sex and genetics are fundamental contributors—as the COVID pandemic highlighted. Now a new study ...

Fashion, film and social feeds may be glamourizing cigarettes again, but experts say it isn’t a real behavioural shift.

Reports suggest that headlines claiming “sitting is the new smoking” dramatically overstate the health risks. While sitting for long periods does have some correlation with health issues, the risks ...

Small study cites increased movements of unborn babies when moms smoked. The study looked at fetuses for both smoking and non-smoking women. The fetuses, whose mother's smoked, tended to touch their ...