shannen doherty smoking cigarettes Welcome to Flickr! Sarah Michelle Gellar & Shannen

Glei, along with Lee and Maxine Weinstein, a professor at Georgetown University, used data from 6,320 participants in the Midlife in the United States, or MIDUS, study funded by the National Institute on Aging to examine the effects of childhood socioeconomic status, education, occupation, income, wealth, and smoking history on mortality for adults aged 20-92 years old

Twenty-eight counties have local option taxes on medical cannabis, adult-use, or both

Another survey indicated the number of 18-year-old males who smoke increased from 21 percent in 1991 to 37 percent in 1996

Research from University College London suggests that each cigarette smoked can decrease life expectancy by an average of 17 minutes for men and 22 minutes for women