Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a ...

After your final cigarette, your lungs start working to clean themselves. Some habits, like exercise and avoiding pollutants, may help support your lung health. If you’ve recently quit smoking ...

Quitting smoking is crucial for better health. Benefits start within minutes. Heart rate and blood pressure drop. Lung ...

However, the American Cancer Society suggests the body begins to repair damage almost immediately when a person stops smoking cigarettes. Lung function starts to improve 2 weeks to 3 months after ...

But perhaps surprisingly, in light of the recent findings on cannabis and emphysema, smoking cannabis alone did not reduce airflow or seem to impact lung functioning. Even after 9 years of use ...

But someday, there might be. Years of study and a mountain of evidence point to tobacco smoking as the single most important risk factor for lung cancer. Nonsmokers (people who have smoked fewer ...

While wildfires can cause immediate destruction to homes and towns, a few weeks of smoke exposure should not have long-term ...