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Health

We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

E-cigarettes were once seen as a sinister cousin to ordinary smoking. Now doctors in the UK think they could be a public health lifeline

Analysis

Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s still safer than smoking

Health

Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s still safer than smoking

News

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

Health

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

News

Hospital

Health

A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure

Comment

Sperm cells

Health

Sperm age calculator tells men how decrepit their sperm are

News

Hand with cigarette

Health

Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs

News

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

Humans

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

News

US plan to cut smoking with non-addictive cigarettes has flaws

Health

US plan to cut smoking with non-addictive cigarettes has flaws

Comment

The death of smoking: how tobacco will be eradicated for good

Health

The death of smoking: how tobacco will be eradicated for good

Insight

A man behind a no smoking sign

Health

UK government wants only 12 per cent of adults to smoke by 2022

Smoking is already down to 15.5 per cent of adults in England, but the government wants to go further, and is also targeting a teenage smoking rate of 3 per cent

News

Health

San Francisco is first US city to ban flavoured tobacco products

News

Life

Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks

News

Health

Smoking is finally dying out among young people in the UK and US

News

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