Health

Women who smoke the same amount as men are twice as likely to get lung cancer.

Years of attention paid to young women by tobacco marketers have yielded gruesome dividends, researchers said.

A report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute gives weight to an unproven theory that women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing substances in tobacco smoke.

"Law and Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson speaks about lung cancer awareness, after the death of two close friends to the disease.

Recent research finds that tobacco smoke exposure that causes lung cancer includes both personal smoking and secondhand smoke.