To ban a bane

Coughing up

Tobacco giant Philip Morris pays a record compensation to a smoker suffering from lung cancer

The hole truth of cigarettes

Smoking unabated

Women in the US continue to puff one too many

Bloody disclosure

Lethal and tiny air pollutants can reach deep into human bloodstream

In Short

This is art

Shaping genetic inheritance

Same genes express differently due to smoking, alcohol, stress

Children, adolescents who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to smoke conventional ones later: WHO

There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes affects brain development in adolescents

REJECTED

No kidding

Pollution can have adverse effect on the lungs of children

Give up!

Health and environmental costs of tobacco use far surpass the revenue generated by the sector

Health tax

Tobacco industry is the true test of health policy

Comic film on workings of big-business tobacco industry

British American Tobacco's documents smoked out

Dementia cases in India to double by 2050, Lancet study shows

Worldwide, the caseload is set to almost triple by 2050

Time to fight

New gimmick

A cigarette company launches smoking prevention programme

High nicotine in US cigarettes perpetuates tobacco pandemic

Stub cut short

Severely polluted air bars people from breathing

Pregnant women who use nicotine patches increase chances of ADHD in their babies

Recent study says the risk is higher with maternal smoking than with paternal smoking

Profits from sin

Tobacco trouble

Smokers' alert