If you’re ready to quit smoking, Medicare can indeed help! Medicare Part B covers up to eight face-to-face counseling sessions per year to help you kick the habit, and if you have a Medicare Part D ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting older smokers to quit can be a tough order, but enlisting social workers in the battle could help, a new study suggests. Sign up here. Even in old age, quitting ...

Administering vitamin E supplements can significantly reduce pneumonia infection risk among elderly male smokers, according to a new study published in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging. To ...

I am a non-smoker who is glad the Smoke-Free Illinois Act was passed. I live in an apartment building where people smoke in the hallways and the smoke has nowhere to go but in the apartment. I have ...

While the dangers of active smoking and secondhand smoke are well known, a less visible but equally harmful risk lurks in homes and indoor spaces: thirdhand smoke. This invisible hazard refers to the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Smokers should be vaccinated against a pneumonia-causing germ, along with children and the elderly, U.S. federal advisers recommended on Wednesday. If accepted by the ...

For years, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was seen as a condition that mainly affected older smokers. That picture has changed completely now. In several states across India, COPD is now ...