Global effort to curtail smoking hits milestone
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On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris&#39;s masculine image of a smoker. Television stations in
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Over eight million smokers are being asked to quit &quot;cold turkey.&quot; It is part of the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Annual Great American Smoke-Out.
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A movement to restrict smoking in apartments and condominiums is having some success.
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Health officials are hoping smokers take heed to warnings and join the Great American Smokeout. The national day to quit smoking is Thursday and locally, health department
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GUWAHATI, India  - The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan  banned smoking in public and tobacco sales on Friday, the first  country in the world to do so.
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As Northern Ireland prepares for a smoking ban, health officials launch a large-scale study of passive smoking.
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Under a sweeping decree that took effect Wednesday, smoking has been banned in every commercial corner of âentertainment and conviviality.â
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LONDON: Smoking killed nearly five million people worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as women to go to an early grave, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.
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Smoking killed nearly 5 million people worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as women to go to an early grave, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Deaths from smoking continue to rise around the world, according to a new study in the November issue of Tobacco Control. Smoking was responsible for almost 5 million deaths worldwide in 2000, or about 12
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The European Unionâs future Health Chief Markos Kyprianou has vowed to fight smoking, insisting that cigarettes are one of the greatest evils the European Union should strive to put a stop to.
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on Thursday.
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An international treaty aimed at curbing tobacco sales and advertising is set to come into force.
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Smoking killed nearly 5 million people  worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as  women to go to an early grave, according to a study published  on Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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LONDON: Britain is to ban smoking in most public places, according to reports ahead of the launch of an ambitious goverment effort to legislate its way to better public health.