Critic’s Notebook Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again From movies and TV shows to music, the habit is no longer taboo. It’s even being celebrated for the way it makes characters look cool or ...

Spain is moving forward with plans to extend smoking bans to public spaces, including restaurant terraces and outdoor areas in bars, the southern European country's health minister announced on ...

Ask A.J. is Slate’s advice column on addiction, recovery, and how to hate yourself less. Submit a question here. It’s anonymous! Dear A.J., I started smoking in high school and successfully ...

Trump's cuts and why smoking is 'cool' again Prior to the cuts, the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products had cracked down on illegal vapes and proposed slashing nicotine levels in cigarettes, most ...

Manya Singh Health Mar 11, 2025 13:54 pm IST Read Time: 3 mins No Smoking Day 2025: Prolonged smoking has numerous visible effects on health ...

A decade ago, New Zealand had a higher rate of adult smoking than Australia. Now it’s lower, with smoking rates falling much faster in that time than in Australia, despite our self-proclaimed ...

Indeed, that’s what made Y2K so novel. The harbinger of doom was not an ancient prophecy or a vast government conspiracy, but rather a straightforward issue with computers. Thus, even amid ...

After smoking on and off, she finally decided to quit for good in 2020. She says what’s worked best for her is taking things just minute by minute.

Yet, the new ways Ice plays with her voice and delivery on Y2K are a welcome indebtedness to the queen. It’s exciting to hear her flex variations of a whispery growl on “Popa,” “Bitch I ...

Smoking is a major risk factor for respiratory tract infections like pneumonia. In fact, people who smoke are about 1.5 times more likely to develop pneumonia than nonsmokers.

Now that smoking has replaced injecting as the most common way to consume fentanyl, UC San Francisco researchers have uncovered an increased risk of fatal overdose from the residue that accumulates in ...

Smoking cigarettes could put more than the lungs and heart at risk. Smoking increases belly fat that may lead to other serious diseases, new research suggests.