Sharon Begley died of complications of lung cancer on Jan. 16, just five days after completing this article. She was a never-smoker. Breast cancer wouldn’t have surprised her; being among the 1 in 8 ...

If you’ve never smoked a cigarette before, you might assume you’re safe from developing lung cancer. Unfortunately, recent statistics indicate that you can be diagnosed with the disease even if you’ve ...

Simon Chapman is a (non-funded) Chief Investigator on a NHMRC 3 year project grant examining unassisted smoking cessation. As smoking continues its inexorable southward journey toward single-digit ...

A small study that compared the lungs of cigarette smokers with e-cigarette smokers found that e-cigarette smokers had more lung inflammation than those who smoked tobacco. The pilot study, published ...