Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Something unusual happened this year in Idaho. Fire and health officials began issuing ...

If you’re unfortunate enough to breathe wildfire smoke, you’re getting a lungful of charred plant material, noxious gases, and—if the fire tore through human structures—incinerated synthetic materials ...

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re unfortunate enough to breathe wildfire smoke, you’re getting a lungful of ...