Experts call for smoking age rise
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The Smoking Prevention Working Group calls for the legal age for smoking to be raised to 18.
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A leading charity says young people should be more aware of the link between smoking and sight loss
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The majority believed raising the age at which teenagers could buy cigarettes would deter them from taking up the habit, according to an ICM poll commissioned by the BBC.
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Diagnosed cases of cancer rose by 10 percent in Europe over two years, an increase attributable to the continent's ageing population, the effects of smoking and better screening for breast cancer, doctors reported.
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The legal smoking age should be raised from 16 to 18 to stop young people taking up the habit, a BBC poll suggests.
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Campaigners say a ban on smoking in public places could save more lives than new anti-cancer drugs.
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Children exposed to passive smoking have  a higher risk of developing lung cancer later in life than  other youngsters, according to new research.
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The World Health Organization is urging Southeast Asian nations to strengthen curbs on tobacco trade. Shigeru Omi, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, told a conference of the Association of
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The world may know that smoking is dangerous, but the world doesn't care, apparently. A WHO report says smoking is on the rise, mainly because enough work isn't being done to curb the addiction.
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Pictorial health warning on cigarette packets are more likely to encourage smokers to quit, a study says.
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TORONTO (CP) - Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to current  requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said Thursday. While current health warnings -in place since 2000 -are "working well," officials say they are not as effective at reaching adults with low literacy skills.
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People who want to give up smoking and lose weight are to be given expert help, funded by the NHS.
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Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now the World Health Organization said
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If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
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The United Nations health agency yesterday issued its strongest policy recommendations yet for controlling tobacco use, urging all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and in public buildings.
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Developing countries, especially in  Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt  rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on  Thursday.
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Four out of five Britons wanted the legal smoking age to be raised from 16 to 18 years in a bid to deter young people from taking up the habit, the result of a poll suggested Monday.