NEW YORK (AP) — Teen drug use hasn’t rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday. About two-thirds of…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes by one year, every year until it is eventually illegal for the whole…

DEAR DR. ROACH: If you would recommend one good thing to do in your life to prolong your life and have good health, what would it be? By the same token, if you were to…

Imagine a man trying to suavely smoke in front of a woman — with the words “cigarettes cause impotence” stamped along the length of the actual cigarette. Other health effects of smoking are more dire,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House passed legislation Thursday to raise the legal age for tobacco products from 18 to 21. House Bill 2269 — which applies to the sale, purchase or possession of cigarette and…

The Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center (SEKMHC) is now tobacco free. The center adopted an  agency-wide, tobacco free policy on Jan. 1. Clients, visitors, and staff are prohibited from using tobacco products at all SEKMHC…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a nonsmoking woman living with a smoker. He smoked cigarettes outside. Now he is vaping, but inside. How dangerous is secondhand vape smoke? I am having a problem finding any…

One of the worst things that can happen to someone trying to learn to smoke meats is for everything to turn out dry and tough.  Meat can be expensive. When you’re not getting the results…

Riley Schmidt, a junior at Humboldt High School, worries her peers are putting themselves in danger by vaping. ?They don?t understand the health effects it has and will have on them,? she said. ?I don?t…