Quitting smoking can help prevent dementia

Where there’s smoke there’s fire

Despite the longstanding and aggressive campaigns against cigarette smoking that show up on TV, online and in print, around 25 million Americans still use cigarettes and millions more are vaping tobacco.

Smoking and secondhand smoke cause almost half a million deaths a year in the U.S. And they’re a cause of or contributor to cancer, lung, cardiovascular, autoimmune …