Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 27, 2012
Researchers say women can avoid most of the ill effects of smoking by kicking the habit before the age of 40. Those who continue stand to lose a decade of life. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 28, 2012
People who were diagnosed with cannabis dependence during their teenage and early adult years exhibited declines in IQ scores by their late 30s, according to researchers at Duke University. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 3, 2011
Budget-strapped Arizona is looking for new ways to pinch pennies. Now the state’s Medicaid agency is proposing to smack smokers and diabetes patients who ignore doctors' orders with special $50 annual fees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 27, 2010
In the first worldwide study of the effects of "passive smoking," researchers at the World Health Organization have discovered that 600,000 people -- a third of them children -- die each year from secondhand smoke. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 11, 2010
If the black-and-white surgeon general's warning on cigarette packaging hasn't served as fair warning to smokers that bad things are likely to happen to them if they keep lighting up their cancer sticks, the new, super-graphic images to be slapped on their smoke packs just might. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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