Smoking News

The tobacco industry worked for two decades to skew research into smoking and Alzheimer's disease, to promote the wrong belief it could prevent the degenerative condition, a review of research has found.

Tobacco smoke residue found on indoor surfaces -- so-called "third-hand smoke" -- can interact with airborne compounds to form new, potentially cancer-causing substances, research suggests.

Two-thirds to three-quarters of people who quit smoking did it without patches or other medication, according to a new report from the University of Syndey.

You know smoking is bad for you. You know inhaling someone else's smoke is bad for you.

In tests at Berkeley Lab of celluose surfaces contaminated with nicotine residues from third-hand smoke, levels of newly formed TSNAs rose 10 times following a three hour exposure to nitrous acid.

Smoking anywhere in public could one day be a thing of the past for Australians.

U.S. cell phone use has quadrupled in the past decade to about 280 million customers.

Columbia, SC - State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex's proposal to increase South Carolina's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to the national average as a way to improve health care and help stop looming teacher furloughs won support today from organizations representing educators and health care.

A parent's existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vaccinated against HPV.

Half of the 400,000 deaths from coronary heart disease predicted in the United States in 2010 could be avoided if people ate healthier food and stopped smoking, according to research.

The state's schools chief Jim Rex, who is also a candidate for governor, is spearheading a push to increase the state's cigarette tax to the national average to avert teacher furloughs.

A proposal to ban smoking at beaches and other public places doesn't have the support of Prime Minister John Key, who thinks it is too "nanny state". The Auckland Regional Public Health Service last week said it would urge tougher measures in a submission to the Maori affairs select committee's inquiry into the tobacco industry and the effects of ...

Nafiz Alkhatib, owner of the Hinsdale Convenience Store in Hinsdale, looks out the store's windows yesterday.

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg , a longtime Senate leader in the fight against the tobacco industry, applauded the Food and Drug Administration's decision to continue their efforts to regulate electronic cigarettes.

U.S. health officials are seeking more information about the possible attraction and addiction of flavored, dissolvable tobacco products that regulators worry look too much like candy and can entice children.

South Carolina's schools chief called on legislators Thursday to increase the state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to the national average and put half of the additional revenue toward education to stop looming teacher furloughs.

Tariana Turia Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia is pushing for greater measures to help people quit smoking which could see cigarette prices rise and tobacco displays banned from shops.

Should smokers pay to keep S.C. teachers in the classroom? State Superintendent of Education and gubernatorial candidate Jim Rex thinks so.

MORE than half of smokers who sought help to quit from the NHS in Surrey, Sussex and Kent have been successful.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is opening a new front in his war against tobacco: the city's cigarette-riden housing projects, which he vows to make smoke-free in the next four years.