MRI findings indicate that smoking is linked to reduced brain volume, raising concerns about dementia risk, especially with ...

Oklahoma slashes smoking rates, but new nicotine products and youth marketing threaten hard-won public health gains.

Smoking not only damages your health but also affects your insurance in many ways. As a smoker, you face higher premiums due ...

Vaccines to prevent infection − including the COVID vaccine − might be as important as anything you might do to maintain your brain health.

The factors that raise the risk of heart disease and stroke can also raise the risk of dementia. When blood vessels are ...

Thirteen of the insula-damaged patients had quit smoking, 12 of them super-easily: They quit within a day of the brain injury, and reported neither smoking nor even feeling the urge since then.

US Code 1333, as it is known, drove a very effective ad campaign against cigarette smoking that eventually led to a 50-year decline in tobacco use in the U.S. At the time in 1965, 42 percent of ...

Bechara and colleagues culled their brain-damage registry for 69 patients who had smoked regularly before their injuries. Nineteen, including Nathan, had damage to the insula. Thirteen of the ...