Smoking News

Health groups are celebrating after a bill was passed allowing the Alberta government to sue tobacco companies for health-care costs associated with tobacco-related diseases.

Confronted with a public smoking ban, higher sin taxes and more anti-smoking efforts, fewer Ohioans are lighting up.

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University has backed away from a total ban on smoking on its main campus and instead will limit it to specific areas while prohibiting smoking in university motor vehicles.

The study, thought to be the first to assess levels of a nicotine byproduct known as cotinine in nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke outdoors, found levels up to 162 percent greater than in the control group.

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MURRAY, Utah - The signs are proudly displayed all over Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.The University of Kentucky imposed a strict tobacco-free policy Thursday that applies everywhere on the sprawling campus in Lexington.

A state Public Health Department study shows that smoking rates among low-income Massachusetts residents who participated in a state program to treat tobacco addiction dropped dramatically.

November 19 is the American Cancer Society's "Great American Smokeout". The day is set aside to help people quit using orbacco products for at least one day in the hope that they will continue and be successful in quitting for good.

Researchers have found that risks to the health of obese children and toddlers from second-hand smoke are far greater than for other groups of children.

State health officials said more than 33,000 calls have been received at a toll-free line created more than three years ago to help Tennesseans quit smoking.

People who smoke are more likely to have seizures than those who don't, while caffeine and alcohol do not increase the chances, according to a new study.

Chicago researchers are seeking current and former smokers for a study on early detection of lung cancer.

As the official sponsor of birthdays, the American Cancer Society marks the 34th Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov.

The sooner you help your teenager to quit, the better. Smoking in the teenage years causes dramatic and lifelong DNA damage in the lungs, according to one study.

Did $1-a-pack tax get smokers to quit - or get more creative? Was the $1-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes a good idea? Sales of cigarettes have plunged since the state's tax increase took effect.

As smokers nationwide struggle to quit the habit, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is offering assistance to those childhood cancer survivors who need help with smoking cessation.

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study published online November 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute .

With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Barack Obama's child health law.