Malawi fears over tobacco treaty
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Malawi, one of the biggest producers of tobacco, is coming under pressure to sign a treaty limiting production.
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A new global treaty on tobacco is sure to be trouble for tobacco companies.
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Zimbabwe's tobacco crop, one of the country's main exportable commodities, falls for the fourth year running.
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Saudi Arabia warns it will sue global tobacco firms unless they pay the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses.
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Regulations are being set out under which all UK tobacco products will have to carry picture health warnings.
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Some worry that HawaiiÂs strict antismoking law will hurt tourism Â especially from Japan.
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The passage of a major U.S. tax bill  on Monday containing a buyout for tobacco farmers has left a  bitter taste among public health groups that had hoped to link  the funding to new federal laws regulating cigarettes.
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The prime minister is asked to explain why he did not declare a holiday with a leading tobacco industry figure
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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan was set to enforce a ban on all tobacco sales, a world first, official media reported.
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AIDS-ravaged Malawi needs to make its own decision whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce levels of HIV infection, international experts said at a conference in Blantyre on Wednesday.
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Taiwan's ties with its ally Malawi were shaky Friday after the African country snubbed the island's top diplomat in an aborted visit to the African nation aimed at persuading it to resist diplomatic wooing by China.
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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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Smokers could be forced to pay Â£10 for a permit to buy tobacco if government health advisers get their way.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - When Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade  refused to sign a free trade accord put forward by the European  Union last month, he urged that an alternative "partnership  deprived of paternalism and without prejudice" be sought.
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China's stability could be threatened if the government tried to curb smoking, a senior official said on Wednesday at a discussion of the annual meeting of parliament.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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AIDS-ravaged Malawi launched a two-day national debate on Wednesday on whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce the levels of HIV infection in the southeast African country.