Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

I am continually amazed when watching the latest shows and films that cigarette smoking remains so commonplace. The US Master Settlement Agreement (1998) prohibits tobacco companies from explicitly ...

"[It] works out to be almost seven hours of life lost per pack," says the lead author of the study For every cigarette an individual smokes, their life expectancy shrinks by 20 minutes overall, ...