The Latest Breaking News from Smoking

Man feared the worst after coming home to 'smoking front door'

The woman says she is "lucky" that her partner came home from work early, or she "might not be here anymore"

Liverpool Echo · Dec 11, 2022

Tory Steve Barclay to stub out plan to make Britain tobacco free by 2030

Whitehall sources say he is abandoning the scheme to raise the legal age for buying tobacco one year every year until no-one was able to buy cigarettes at all

Daily Mirror · Dec 10, 2022

The Stats Guy: Smoking, vaping and Australia’s pursuit of a healthier population

Beep, beep. $51.95. That’s not an unusual amount for a shop at the supermarket. What did the guy in front of me get for his $51.95? One packet of 25

The New Daily · Dec 10, 2022

ONS records lowest proportion of smokers in UK on record

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 13.3% of people aged 18 and over in the UK smoked cigarettes in 2021.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Heart attacks among young people on the rise; lifestyle changes that can help prevent it

Shocking videos of young people collapsing due to heart attacks have surfaced on twitter, spreading concern among netizens. In one such video, the bride suffered from a cardiac arrest minutes after exchanging garlands on stage at her wedding. In another video, a 25-year-old man who is said to have gone…

The Times of India · Dec 6, 2022

Young People Are Using Cigarettes To Quit Vapes, Threatening Decades Of Anti-Tobacco Progress

Vape addiction rates among young people have risen so much that cigarette smoking rates are starting to lift too, after decades of declines.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 6, 2022

More South Africans are smoking - higher taxes and stronger law enforcement are needed

Tobacco use imposes a significant health and economic burden on countries. Research estimates that the cost of smoking in South Africa amounted to 0.97% of the country’s GDP in 2016. These costs are likely to have increased as a result of the observed rise in smoking prevalence over the past…

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022

Throat cancer symptoms you should have checked by a GP

Experts run down the common misconceptions about ditching cigarettes

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2022

Anutin addresses beach photo involving minors

A photo depicting two minors smoking pot along Pattaya Beach that went viral has prompted Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to call on the police to enforce the law.

Bangkok Post · Dec 3, 2022

Amsterdam bids to ban pub crawls and limit cannabis as good tourists 'do not pee through the mailbox'

The tourist destination is seeking to clean up its image with a ban on smoking cannabis in public in the Red Light District and limiting sale of alcohol

Wales Online · Dec 2, 2022