The health impacts of smoking are widespread and significant, but many of the most dangerous consequences begin to reverse themselves almost from the moment you quit.

Inflammation is a normal response to infection or injury in the body, and is in fact a sign of the body working hard to heal itself.

When discussing risk factors for cancer, among other health conditions, one that often comes up is race.

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects one in eight adults aged between 20 to 40 worldwide,[1] and one in three adults between ages 40 and 59.