Reports circulating on social media and some media outlets have equated breathing wildfire smoke in NY to smoking anywhere from 3 to 20 cigarettes, depending on air quality levels in the community.

In lung cells, they found that on average, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day led to 150 mutations in each cell every year. Each mutation is a potential start point for a "cascade of genetic ...

When it comes to getting cigarette smokers to give up the habit, just about everything has been tried. There are ghosts of smokers past, talking in public service announcements after their deaths ...

A pack of cigarettes has about 20 grams of tobacco; a hookah bowl has roughly the same. Say you share it with two buddies—in an hour, in terms of actual tobacco consumed, you've each smoked the ...

Over time, my smoking only got heavier. At my worst, I was smoking a pack and a half a day while working in a restaurant in Cambridge. A few years of this and I developed a persistent cough ...

Invest in a 2-pack-a-day habit instead of retirement, you could lose $378,000 in 20 years. ... How cigarettes could send your retirement up in smoke ...

Study: Cigarettes Pack More Nicotine. August 30, 2006 / 8:02 AM EDT / CBS/AP ... The report has anti-smoking groups calling for greater regulation of the tobacco companies.

Advocacy groups, such as the American Cancer Society and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have long supported an increase in the tobacco tax to encourage Hoosiers to avoid or quit smoking and bring in ...

In an attempt to discourage smokers from lighting up, New Zealand is considering raising the price of a pack of cigarettes to as much as $100 by 2020, Sky News reported. The suggested measure is ...

Attempts to compare breathing wildfire smoke in New York to smoking a certain number of cigarettes potentially downplay the true health risks of the hazy smog blanketing the state, experts say ...