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Researchers identified specific genes and microRNA that play an essential role in how roundworms develop nicotine dependence and withdrawal responses

Prescription smoking cessation drugs currently on the market can work well but can also cause harmful side effects

Five metals, toxic and potentially carcinogenic when inhaled, found in liquid of leading first generation e-cigarette brands

Researcher explores microbiological mechanisms as World Health Organization urges for a day of abstinence from tobacco use

“Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people."

Researchers design a new vaccine that could increase the number of antibodies that could attach to nicotine molecules

The social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum (or “Dicty”), is a great model for human COPD

People who've recently stopped smoking are four times more likely to use e-cigarettes than current smokers

To help people stop smoking, scientists are turning to a nicotine-eating bacteria

In lab and mouse experiments, cigarette smoke helps drug-resistant bacteria fight off the immune system.