The habit of smoking a cigarette when drinking alcohol is common—and difficult to break. Alcohol decreases the ability to resist the urge to smoke, so for many, drinking triggers smoking. Despite the ...

Excessive drinking is a major contributor to liver diseases, high blood pressure, heart problems, and an increased risk of certain cancers. Additionally, alcohol impairs judgement, leading to ...

Should you quit smoking before alcohol, or the other way around? A nephrologist explains why there is no one-size-fits-all ...

Bad habits such as heavy drinking, smoking and a sedentary lifestyle can cause detrimental effects by the age of 36, research suggests. The study, published in the Annals of Medicine, tracked ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. This devastating event occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. The resulting ...

Drinking causes 1 in every 20 deaths worldwide. Perversely, because its harms are so widespread and longstanding and well ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Churchgoers drink and smoke less than adults who spend their Sundays elsewhere but a U.S. study had found it may not be church attendance itself that explains this -- it ...