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Business secretary speaks out as Penny Mordaunt and other ministers waver over support

Victims minister Laura Farris hits back after criticism by Liz Truss of Rishi Sunak’s legislation aiming to prevent anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco

Exclusive: England’s chief medical officer says tobacco industry is the ‘one gainer from the death and disease’ caused by its products

A rather grand lady told me once how her generation before the war used to make smoking particularly seductive: you inhaled and then gracefully exhaled down the length of your arm before finishing blowing upwards. It sounds tricky, but with the right vamp in the right ambience I think it…

Tactics include proposals to raise smoking age to avoid outright ban, and exemptions for cigars, says Cancer Research UK chief

I asked grilling experts how much I should spend on a grill, and they gave me advice for every type – whether you want a kamado or a smoker

Scientific advances in immunotherapy and new targeted therapies have increased survival rates. But screening among former and current smokers still needs to improve to save more lives.

Former PM laments state of Tory party saying it is ‘mad’ that party of Winston Churchill is ‘banning cigars’

A deadline for the White House to review a proposal to ban the extra-addictive cigarettes expired last month with no action

Grilling season is back. If you're wondering about the best wood for smoking, I spoke to pitmasters and wood experts to find the very best

Money spent on tobacco products in England ‘could instead be spent in shops, on entertainment or other services’, author adds