12 year-old smoking cigarettes 12-year-old boy a cigarette. Original black-and-white 1971 photograph. Collection of Stephen Parfitt, Springfield Illinois Children 'addicted to sweet tasting

Hens believes his very authorial persona was forged in the crucible of his emergent addiction, for, on experiencing his first nicotine rush: I became myself for the very first time. And the sort of self he became was a writerly one: I not only saw images, not only heard single words or sentences, but experienced an inner world

The evidence says otherwise, and so should tax policy

A liquid medication to kill the hookworms was immediately given, and those who survived would continue to manufacture red blood cells all the way to total recovery

Quitting smoking can increase the life expectancy of any individual, and especially a person with diabetes.

Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and risk of oral clefts in newborns