Smoking News

Omaha resident Charlie Waters has a cigarette in Omaha, Neb in 2007. The recession is having an effect on anti-smoking advertisements and and other smoking cessation programs as recession-battered states lack the funds to keep them going.

Adding a high tax on unhealthy food and drinks may help slow the rising rates of obesity, according to a new study published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal .

Knowsley Magistrates' Court heard last week how a large wooden shed-style smoking shelter had been built outside the Masons Arms following the implementation of smoke-free legislation in July 2007.

I detest cigarettes; it robs the quality of life from smokers and nonsmokers alike.

The 'Copacabana' singer gave up the habit 20 years ago after beginning at an early age in the tough New York neighbourhood he grew up in.

After finishing lunch at J. Gilligan's bar Tuesday, Cheryl Witter enjoyed a cigarette at her table before heading back to work.

"A world with less cancer is a world with more birthdays," Ross Messick, the Rochester Director of the American Cancer Society, said in a talk to the Dodge Center Lions Club.

Deaths from cancer among 50-somethings have fallen to their lowest level in 40 years, thanks to better diagnosis, fewer people smoking and new drugs improving patients' chances of survival.

Hypnotherapy is one of the most commonly used alternative methods for quitting smoking, yet there is still some ambivalence out there about its effectiveness.

The National Institutes of Health awarded an $8.4 million grant to scientists at the Scripps Research Institute's Jupiter campus to develop anti-smoking treatments.

Smoking marijuana may improve some symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests.

In Hastings Monday night, a big decision coming down from the city council as they decide no smoking in public parks In a 6-2 vote, council members pass a strict policy to ban smoking in parks and on trails.

These pro-cigarette photoshoots have done an excellent job of glamorizing a habit that many have deemed to be unhealthy and even immoral.

It was originally projected to bring $7,000, but a nude photograph of Madonna has just sold at auction for more than three times that.

An 'absolutely stunning' photograph of Madonna posing naked on a bed while smoking a cigarette has sold for nearly A 15,000. The sum is three times the estimate placed on the image that was taken in 1990 during the period when the singer had bleach-blonde hair and dark eye make-up. 'From the start of my career, I've been naked': Michael Fassbender ... (more)

A sexy photograph of Madonna posing topless in bed while smoking a cigarette sold for $23,750 to an anonymous buyer.

I would like to comment on The Santa Barbara Independent 's endorsement of Prop 29 and Jerry Roberts summary of it.

HALEDON - Smoking in public parks may soon be prohibited as the borough considers following the leads of towns and cities across the state and country that have imposed smoking bans in parks, restaurants and other places.

Smoking is fast becoming public enemy number one in America today, attacked and decried by public health advocates, politicians and community figures on a daily basis.

ABIDJAN, May 12 -- Experts from Cote d'Ivoire's public health ministry on Friday called for the reinforcement of the fight against smoking in the country, Xinhua news agency reported.