Doctors have known about the correlation between tobacco use and lower birth-weights for at least 20 years. And they think they know how it happens. (more…)

A group of scientists recently studied 109 white smokers and 23 white non-smokers between the ages of 35 and 59. The study was focused on determining if facial wrinkles are associated with cigarette smoking and premature aging. (more…)

When he was a child, Tom Freid smoked just about anything he could get his hands on. He sneaked puffs of his dad’s pipe when nobody was looking. He swiped imported cigarettes from the restaurant where he worked. If he couldn’t get tobacco, he smoked corn silk. (more…)