Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more -- ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

Women tend to find it harder to quit smoking than men, and a new study suggests why - women's brains respond differently to nicotine, the researchers say. When a person smokes, the number of nicotine ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eva Epker covers what to know about and how to improve women's health. Historically, lung cancer was known as a men’s disease, due ...

Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm--a weakened bulging artery--in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of ...