Secondhand victims

Late awakening

Injurious to health

Stop smoking for a day and you may live to regret it, say researchers in the UK

Filters that failed

Devil's advocate

Tobacco major Philip Morris unveils its new death policy

A heart condition

SOUTH KOREA

Philip Morris did it for profits

Anti-smoking ad in the UK, ahead of ban on public smoking

Big Tobacco is stubbed out

An arbitral ruling upholding Uruguay's anti-smoking regulations and fining Philip Morris is a big win for public health

Few governments levy appropriate levels of tax on tobacco products, says WHO report

Evidence shows WHO’s recommendation to increase tax on tobacco products is the most effective way to curb its consumption

Malignant malaise

Research finally establishes that smoking and lung cancer are directly proportional to each other. Tobacco firms are hopping mad

Big tobacco coughs up

A tobacco company will have to pay US $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer

Net work

Smoking ban

Lies against lies

In UK, images to accompany anti-smoking warnings

News snippets

Smokers were never really protected from COVID, despite what early studies claimed

COVID-19 should teach us to hold extraordinary claims — about smoking, vitamin D, zinc, bleach, gargling iodine, or nebulising …

Children and passive smoking

A pregnant woman exposed to cigarette smoke can pass on the harmful smoke constituents to the foetus

Fireworks follow SMOKE

Tobacco companies will foot the medical bills of smokers who have cancer under an agreement with the US state of Florida. This spells bad times …

Tobacco wars

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Vaping likely has dangers that could take years for scientists to even know about

Many people don’t even know what these vaping devices contain

The fag end

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