The new estimate was nearly twice as high as a 2000 estimate published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which found that a single cigarette shortened a person’s life by 11 minutes on average.

Just one puff may be enough to get children addicted to cigarettes, doctors said yesterday. Children and teenagers become hooked on nicotine with astonishing speed after using amounts of tobacco ...

Some bodegas in the Bronx are now selling eggs in threes as customers struggle with the soaring cost of an entire carton.

Smoking shortens life expectancy, with each cigarette reducing years of healthy living. Quitting early can reverse much of ...