A year after she quit smoking, Kim Swart thought the half-million cigarettes she smoked between high school and retirement ...

Cigarette smoking exposes you to nicotine and other chemicals that can increase your blood pressure and lead to hypertension. Learn why and what happens if you quit.

It's no secret that smoking is harmful to your lungs and overall health, but you should also be aware of the damage it does ...

Notice your blood pressure has been creeping up lately? Smoking not only harms your lungs, but it also causes spikes in blood pressure and increases heart disease risk. Quitting smoking is crucial for ...

Among other side effects, smoking does cause blood vessels to constrict. This can lead to sometimes life threatening events like heart attack or stroke. Smoking is linked to a wide range of negative ...

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person's immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they've quit, a new study found.Video above: ...

As vaping becomes more common in these same communities, a new form of nicotine use could be replacing one heart risk with another. Many people now switch from cigarettes to vapes to reduce harm, but ...