A Norwegian study finds that women who smoke socially are at far greater health risk than previously believed — even if it's “just on weekends.” ...

Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm—a weakened bulging artery—in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of ...

Contrary to common belief, women smokers are not more likely than men to get lung cancer, researchers report.

Women smokers more than triple their risk of dying early, but kicking the habit can virtually eliminate the increased risk.

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not ...

Women who smoke cigarettes are just as likely as men to develop potentially fatal aneurysms in the main artery leading from the heart, according to a recent study.

A waify woman in a shimmering sea-green jumpsuit traipses across this double-paneled ad, a cigarette dipping from her fingers. She’s laughing, fancy-free, answering to no one but herself.

The study also demonstrated the benefit of quitting smoking. Stroke risk declined as early as 30 days after a woman gave up smoking and returned to normal in about two years.

Smoking hurts everyone, but women under the age of 50 who smoke are at four to five times greater risk for having a heart attack, according to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo. He says most ...

Women smokers are at a greater risk than at any time in recent decades from smoking-related illnesses such as lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, or cardiovascular diseases. That's according to a new ...

Marcus studied 281 healthy but sedentary smokers and found that women who exercised vigorously were twice as likely to quit and gained half as much weight as women who did not exercise.