Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current tobacco smoking vs. nonsmoking raised the likelihood for an asthma attack. Patients with lower odds for ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eva Epker covers what to know about and how to improve women's health. Historically, lung cancer was known as a men’s disease, due ...

Yale researchers have pinpointed a different brain response between male and female smokers by analyzing dynamic brain scans. This study marks the first time that PET (positron emission tomography) ...