Dear Savvy Senior: Does Medicare offer any coverage that helps beneficiaries quit smoking? — New Beneficiary Dear New Beneficiary: If you’re ready to quit smoking, Medicare can indeed help. Medicare ...

Women who quit smoking before age 40 reduce their risk of dying by nearly 90 percent; those who quit before age 30 can remove up to 97 percent of the risk of premature death, according to researchers ...

When discussing the risks of smoking, most people tend to focus on its well-known links to lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. However, doctors are increasingly highlighting another, less-discussed ...

New Yorkers, brave New Yorkers, have largely kicked that old, nasty, but sometimes oddly seductive habit of putting semi-flammable cancer-causing objects in their mouths and lighting them. Today Mayor ...