There was no significant difference in risk between men who quit smoking and those who continued to smoke.

The traditional risk factors for stroke are increasing age, being male - men have more strokes than women - cigarette smoking is a very strong one and blood pressure is probably the strongest consistent factor,

The market has an asymmetrical bias towards upside risk because we've lost those cushions.

The market has an asymmetrical bias towards upside risk because we've lost those cushions,

Active cigarette smoking is established by us -- and, really, almost everyone -- as being the single largest risk factor for hardening of the arteries.

Smoking appears to confer a modest elevation in breast cancer risk, ... Certainly this relationship is not as strong as the relationship between smoking and lung cancer or smoking and heart disease, but breast cancer may be another disease to add to the long list of diseases associated with smoking.