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Expenditure on NHS Stop Smoking Services was almost 61 Million in 2007/08 - nearly 10 million more than in 2006/07 and almost 36 million more than in 2001/02, a report by The NHS Information Centre reveals). ...

MORE than 9,000 people in the south "quit" smoking with the help of the NHS last year, figures have revealed.

Anti-smoking advocates say they fear more teenagers will begin smoking in South Carolina now that state funding has been cut for prevention programs.

The metal cadmium plays a major role in causing emphysema, and even low-level exposure through secondhand smoke and other sources can increase the risk of lung disease, a new study says.

Babies born prematurely to women who smoked during their pregnancy may be at higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome than premature infants born to nonsmoking moms, new research suggests.

With smoking now banished from the workplace and retailers' powerwalls out of sight thanks to the province's tough new anti-smoking measures, it would be easy to think that Alberta's fight against tobacco could ...

Q: Can you tell me why people finally get sober and stop using drugs? I have seen so many people struggle for years and then finally something happens and they quit.

Question: Do you have any new Lois-Clark Smallville scoop? -- Trish Ausiello: At some point within the first seven episodes, one of them will confess their love for the other.

Tropic Thunder' star - ' who recently welcomed his second child with wife Tanya Haden into the world - ' admits he has replaced his nicotine habit with a new vice.

DENVER - A pair of cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking self-proclaimed rednecks are here campaigning for Obama.

Fitch Ratings believes there is a strong likelihood that tobacco production and marketing will become regulated and that legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority has the ...

Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth.

London, Aug 22 : A controversial pill has caused a surge in the number of smokers quitting, official figures suggest.

Finally, Republic Act No. 9211, or the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 is fully in effect.

On Tuesday, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich signed legislation making it even more difficult for minors to purchase cigarettes in Illinois.

An anti-smoking coalition is pressing the provincial government to hike taxes on cigarettes, arguing young people are benefiting from the hot job market and have more cash to buy smokes.

More things I wonder about. I wonder why, after the Obama campaign linked John McCain to George Bush, the McCain campaign tried to link Barack Obama to, of all people, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Researchers in Denmark report that people who regularly inhale incense might be increasing their risk of respiratory tract cancers.

The number of Canadians lighting up cigarettes has remained stable for the past three years, according to a national survey on tobacco use, released Monday.

By Andy Rowell Johannesburg - Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched the lethal radioactive substance polonium - present in cigarettes - over a 40-year period but never published the results, ...