A former smoker, she was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung ailment with no cure.

Uptake was associated with high educational levels, healthy behaviours, being a former smoker and being Italian versus foreign national.

Herein, we describe a white male former smoker with advancedstage squamous cell non-small-cell lung cancer, who responded to first-line erlotinib.

But Mr Petrie, a former smoker himself, stopped short of supporting further tobacco controls and said it was important governments did not demonise smokers.

There haven't been enough inspections, said former Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia, a former smoker who pushed for the national ban under the previous centre-right government.

A spokesman said doctors were taking a cautious approach with the Czech leader, a former smoker who has survived lung cancer and a ruptured intestine.

A US jury has awarded a record $28 billion in punitive damages to a former smoker who sued Philip Morris for fraud and negligence.

JACKSONVILLE - A Florida jury awarded a former smoker of Lucky Strike cigarettes $750,000 after finding American Tobacco negligent for producing defective products.

Current smokers also had a 33 percent higher risk than former smokers.

Background: The majority of lung carcinoma cases occur in current or former smokers.

However, no such association was noted for former smokers with and without diabetes.

Method: Participants were 95 former smokers recruited from the COPDGene study.

All patients were white and nine were smokers or former smokers.

But whether former smokers do any better than current ones has been less clear.

This association was markedly stronger among non-smokers and former smokers than among current smokers.

Former smokers' reports of smoking urge were not affected by smoking cues or AS.