(Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Pierre Suu/GC Images via Getty Images, Alena Zakirova/Getty Images, COBRA TEAM - Pino/BACKGRID) Smoking was supposed to be on its way out — not completely gone ...

On FX’s wildly popular series “Love Story,” Carolyn Bessette Kennedy looks incredibly chic in her ’90s minimalist outfits, taking casual drags from her cigarettes. Fast forward to a fictional world of ...

Dirty habits die hard. Slightly less dirty habits don’t go any easier. A new, worldwide review of smoking cessation from 2014 to 2023 found the best way to quit cigarettes is to swap in ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. The cigarette smoking rate among U.S.

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. As U.S. drug use behavior has shifted away from injecting and toward smoking, public health experts have been almost uniform in their reaction ...

In my early 20s, my favorite movie theater was a once-grand, crumbling landmark where you almost never had to search out a seat. After the previews, a young John Waters appeared onscreen, cigarette in ...

Exactly 20 years ago, Scotland became the first part of the UK to ban smoking in enclosed public places - including pubs, restaurants and workplaces. To some, the legislation heralded dusk on the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. As Australia’s top thinkers on organised crime gathered in Canberra this week, one topic hijacked the conversation: what to do about ...

Some experts have mischaracterized smoking fentanyl as “safer” than injecting, seeking to reduce risks among users. Narrowly considered, the statement is accurate, as inhalation avoids needle-sharing, ...

It was 1991 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and after 20 years of marriage, Nadja Piatka was left on her own to make a living. Her dentist husband had just taken up with a toothy model, leaving a slew ...