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Smoking’s Toll on Health Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought, a Study Finds

However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in ...Full Article
Yellow/orange areas are regions where the thickness of the cortex at age 73 is associated with the amount of lifetime smoking; the greater the amount of lifetime smoking, the thinner the cortex. Image credit: Molecular Psychiatry, S Karama, IJ Deary et al.

Smoking Thins Vital Part of Brain

Years ago, children were warned that smoking could stunt their growth, but now a major study by an international team including the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and ...Full Article

A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects

The recent news about smoking was sensational: some people with damage to a prune-size slab of brain tissue called the insula were able to give up cigarettes instantly. Suppose scientists could ...Full Article