Starting to smoke before the age of 20 can have serious repercussions for your health later in life - even if you haven't sparked up a cigarette for decades. Researchers from Seoul National University ...

UK teens who currently vape are as likely to take up smoking as their peers in the 1970s, despite a substantial fall in the prevalence of teenage smoking over the past 50 years, suggests a long-term ...

CNN — People who start smoking young are much more likely to smoke daily as adults and find it much, much harder to quit. The findings of the study, which published Wednesday, said that cigarette ...

Cigarette smoking may be declining worldwide, but tobacco use is still responsible for the deaths of about 6 million people globally each year, according to the World Health Organization. For most, ...

Nearly two-thirds of children who started tobacco smoking in childhood or adolescence continued smoking in young adulthood. Active smoking of tobacco from age 10 years through 24 years was associated ...

Dear Dr. Wallace: You said in a recent column that the younger teens are when they start smoking, the more difficult it is for them to kick the habit.