For several decades, doctors warned that smoking could be hazardous to a person's health. Now, side-smoking or vaping could also make you a greater target for COVID-19.
Vaping can not only weaken a person's lungs but it can also lessen the immunity system's ability to fight off infections which is why it puts a person at high risk of getting COVID-19.
Cuban and Puerto Rican adults who grow up in households with smokers are twice as likely to smoke during their adulthoods than non-Hispanic populations, and slightly more likely than other Hispanic subgroups, according to a new report.
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently joined forces to launch the education campaign, "The Tips from Former Smokers (Tips)," which features advice from Hispanics who quit smoking to help others quit smoking.
A newly published study has identified a particular common link between smoking and depression, and claims that acculturation is associated with depression and the use of tobacco among Latinos.
Uruguay President Jose Mujica pade a visit to the White House on Monday and sat down with President Barack Obama to discuss the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and South America.
A recent report released from the offices several U.S. lawmakers revealed several issues regarding the use of electronic cigarettes that include the lack of age restrictions and no uniform warning labels.
The New Year has just begun, but there are already plenty of health theories out there that have the potential to turn 2014 into a very risky year. Here are five health-related stories to hit the news this year that, for one reason or another, we hope are not true. If they are, then 2014 could end up being a very sick year (and not in the good way).
Most Americans are well aware that smoking kills, but in developing countries, consumers continue to puff away, bringing to light the fact that "tobacco consumption more than doubled in the developing world from 1970 to 2000," according to the United Nations.
