american lung association

Unfortunately a bill recently passed by the Baltimore City Council allowing the use of e-cigarettes in restaurants, taverns and casinos not only weakens Baltimore and Maryland's longstanding and popular smoke-free laws, it threatens the health of many city workers. We urge Mayor Rawlings-Blake to see through the tobacco industry smokescreen and use her power to veto this ordinance.

They may have moved to Michigan, but this couple's story begins in D.C.

News and events going on around Baltimore County.

Instead of the federal CO2 level, Maryland must focus on the state level to eliminate the toxic pollutants nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. This can only be achieved by retiring the Charles P. Crane and Herbert A. Wagner coal power plants that produce them.

State must stand firm behind efforts to promote alternative energy, reduce air pollution

Supreme Court's support of EPA curbs on out-of-state air pollution is life-saving news for downwind states like Maryland

Air quality has improved a lot in Maryland and nationwide over the past 15 years, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. But summertime smog levels in Harford and Prince George's counties are still among the worst in the country, the group found.

After five years as what Harford County Public Schools students know as "The Snow Lady," Teri Kranefeld is leaving her post as manager of communications for the school system

Vapor shops are popping up fast — locally and nationwide — as more smokers turn to electronic cigarettes. It's a trend that gives some health professionals pause because they can't say definitively whether "vaping" is a safe or effective method of kicking the smoking habit.

The Obama administration is expected to propose new rules today that would slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, one of the most significant steps the administration can take this term toward cutting air pollution, people with knowledge of the announcement said.

This couple created a winter wedding with a splash of purple

This year, approximately 160,340 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer, accounting for 28% of all cancer deaths.

Dr. Solbert "Sol" Permutt, a retired physiologist and teacher who helped expand the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, died of esophageal cancer May 23 at Roland Park Place. The former Mount Washington resident was 87.

Memorial Day weekend's beach-bound should remember to pack the essentials — including a bicycle or two

University of Maryland Medical Center transplants new lungs into teen in time for school dance

Don't be fooled by those who claim smokeless tobacco is not dangerous

hopkins study says acid reflux drugs doesn't help children's asthma

All tobacco is not equally harmful to human health and taxes should reflect that reality

For the sake of public health, Maryland ought to tax cigars, snuff and other forms of tobacco at a rate comparable to the state's tax on cigarettes

States not doing enough to prevent tobacco-related disease

Republican Party activist had been first secretary of the Harford County Council and coordinated various political campaigns

Republican Party activist had been first secretary of the Harford County Council and coordinated various political campaigns

Obama's pandering to business on air pollution will cost lives

Recycling and other efforts to be launched in first year, but air pollution worries some

A program aimed at making the community's air healthier to breathe is encouraging short-haul truckers at the port of Baltimore to trade in their soot-belching clunkers for newer, cleaner vehicles.