Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. It causes chronic lung disease and predisposes individuals to acute lung injury and pulmonary infection. Alveolar macrophages are ...

The CDC recently reported 15 percent of adults ages 21 to 24 in the US — the generation who came of age during the e-cigarette boom — still use e-cigarettes, as do 10 percent of those ages 18 ...