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Both smoking and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) increase your risk of negative cardiovascular outcomes. By quitting cigarettes, you can support your HCM management plan. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ...

Smoking is an established risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). Smoking also worsens the course of disease for people who already have MS. MS is an inflammatory disease that involves the breakdown ...

The claims sound outrageous, but according to Biology Insights, you can experience facial changes as a result of smoking the ...

“There’s no one who doesn’t know the risks,” says Peter Shields, MD, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the Ohio State University in Columbus. But, he says, nicotine is incredibly ...

Long-term cannabis use in any form has been linked to a greater risk of heart disease. In a new study, researchers at UC San Francisco determined that eating edible cannabis, such as gummies, has the ...

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

Reports suggest that headlines claiming “sitting is the new smoking” dramatically overstate the health risks. While sitting ...

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