Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne Australians’ vices, including drinking, ...

Numerous factors shape how a person’s immune system reacts to infections and other challenges. Age, sex and genetics are fundamental contributors—as the COVID pandemic highlighted. Now a new study ...

Smoking can affect the overall health and appearance of your skin. The toxins in tobacco can decrease blood flow to skin cells, reduce moisture in the dermis, and break down collagen and elastin, ...

Smoking is a risk factor for Graves’ disease. It also increases the risk of complications such as eye problems. Smoking can cause a multitude of health issues throughout the body. Although people ...

Previously, Mendelian randomization (MR) studies have explored the causal relationship between smoking and abdominal obesity using a single genetic variant for smoking heaviness. Similarly, a recent ...

Bad habits such as smoking, heavy drinking and lack of exercise must be tackled as early as possible to boost the odds of a happy and healthy old age. That is the message of a new study, published in ...

Smoking is an established risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). Smoking also worsens the course of disease for people who already have MS. MS is an inflammatory disease that involves the breakdown ...

There is a link between non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and smoking. Heavy smoking has an association with NHL, and the link is especially strong with the subtype known as follicular lymphoma. A 2017 ...