The study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men for the damaging effects of smoking.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Earlier studies by the 2 researchers described the effects of social networks on obesity and efforts to stop smoking.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

The report says one reason for the growing deadliness of cancer is more people smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The researchers found no considerable change in the number of heart attacks in areas near Pueblo without smoking bans.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

They studied the pictures for signs of AMD and to see whether smoking influenced the womens chances of developing the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men for the damaging effects of smoking.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The study concludes that the worldwide health effects from drinking are about the same as that of smoking nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Experts say one reason more people are dying from cancer is because more people are smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The study found that losses from obesity are now equal to, if not greater than, those from smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Experts say forty percent of cancers could be prevented by avoiding health risks like smoking and tobacco use.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

And while you're there, tell us if you have been able to quit smoking, and what advice you might have for others.

VOA: special.2010.05.31