Cigarette companies have always recognized youth as their “replacement generation” and have employed a myriad of strategies and tactics to target, attract and addict them to tobacco products. Right ...

For some of the key victories and milestones in the American Lung Association's efforts to reduce tobacco use, see our Tobacco Control Timeline ...

Tobacco companies have decades of experience marketing their products to kids and teens. From ad campaigns to product placement to cartoon characters, Big Tobacco has spent big bucks on getting kids ...

Asthma can be diagnosed at any time in one's life. While there is no cure for asthma, it can be managed by working with a healthcare provider to develop a plan to keep your asthma under control. There ...

There are four stages of COPD. Your healthcare provider will use your COPD stage to determine your COPD severity and guide your treatment. To stage COPD, your healthcare provider will look at your ...

From 2000 to 2015, the COPD hospitalization rate did not change on average year to year. In 2020, there were more than 335,000 COPD hospitalizations, or 101.3 per 100,000 population. From 2016 to 2020 ...

The American Lung Association calls for the following actions to be taken by New York's elected officials to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke: Preserve funding for the New York ...

Today, the American Lung Association released the 2025 “State of Tobacco Control” report, which finds that the tobacco industry is taking more aggressive actions at the federal and state levels to ...

Asthma is a chronic (or lifelong) disease that can be serious—even life-threatening. There is no cure for asthma. The good news is that with proper management, you or your loved one with asthma can ...

Ozone and short-term particle pollution. The data on air quality throughout the United States were obtained from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality System (AQS). The American Lung ...

The American Lung Association calls for the following actions to be taken by West Virginia's elected officials to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke: Increase funding for tobacco ...

What Are the Symptoms of TB? A person with inactive TB (latent TB) will have no symptoms, however, without treatment they can develop active TB disease and become sick. Symptoms of active TB disease ...