A federal report blames the surge of teens who took up smoking in the 1980s on massive promotional campaigns by tobacco companies, including the debut of Joe Camel. The report released Thursday by the ...

Smokers today may be more strongly influenced by genetic predispositions than in generations past, and that may be making it harder for them to quit, a new study suggests. That’s not to say that our ...

Smoking rates have decreased more than 50 percent since 1980, according to a Minnesota Heart Survey study. The study, published in the Nov. 23 issue of the journal Circulation, was conducted through ...