Cigarette 'caused fire tragedy'
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Three generations of one family died in a fire probably started by a lit cigarette, an inquest says.
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The surgeon general's warning that smoking can be hazardous to your health takes on new meaning inside a coal mine, where the flicker of a cigarette lighter could trigger a deadly methane gas explosion.
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Smoking, already linked to several   illnesses, may also increase the risk of infection with HIV,   the virus that causes AIDS, researchers said on Thursday.
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Â· State accused of bungling as flames claim 57 lives Â· Prime minister admits local forces cannot cope
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The majority of smokers don&#39;t know the facts about what&#39;s in their cigarettes and how these ingredients may be harming them.
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People under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, a study shows.
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Smoking kills more than 1,600 people in England each week with blackspots in deprived areas, a study says.
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Britain is facing a flood of illegal  cigarettes which pose potentially fatal health risks, the  government said on Wednesday as it launched a campaign to deter  smokers from buying cheap contraband tobacco.
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The unauthorized use of an attic as accommodation most likely caused a fire that killed 25 people in a care home for the disabled in western Latvia, firefighters said Saturday.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 4 -- Candles used for light in an apartment without electricity probably caused a fire that killed six children inside, a fire official said Monday as investigators continued sifting through debris.
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Several people were seriously injured after a blaze broke out at a fireworks factory near Ringmer, southeast England, creating a plume of smoke visible for several miles.
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Britain is facing a flood of illegal  cigarettes that pose potentially fatal health risks, the  government said on Wednesday as it launched a campaign to deter  smokers from buying cheap contraband tobacco.
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A fire that damaged Geneva's largest synagogue was set deliberately, according to results of an investigation announced Friday.
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Fire destroyed an apartment building and a synagogue, killing at least one person, authorities said. A separate blaze in York, Penn., burned down a home early Saturday, killing four people and injuring three others who leapt from the building to safety.
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Investigators are probing whether oxygen tanks, among other possible causes, may have started a fire at an adult care home that killed one person and put more than a dozen in the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.
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A fire at a flat in which a woman, 33, died in Downpatrick is being treated as suspicious.
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Smoking not only damages health, it is bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning nearly 60 years.