Browsing: Smoking

Anti-tobacco campaigners have condemned a global advertising campaign for Marlboro by Philip Morris International (PMI), saying the company is being duplicitous in claiming it wants to…

It used to be thought that the lungs couldn’t regenerate,” says Dr Charlotte Dean, head of the lung development and disease group at Imperial College London. “But we…

A bill banning anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will…

Smoking is bad for you and you shouldn’t do it. You know both of these things, of course: you’ve been told them in school, on TV…

Teenage girls in Europe have the highest rate of tobacco use in their age group around the world, while one in seven adolescents across the continent…

Vaping in cars carrying anyone under 18 will be banned in England under government plans to reduce the harm caused by smoking and e-cigarettes.The move is…

More socially acceptable than smoking – yet just as addictive – vaping has become the UK’s default way of consuming nicotine.Figures published by the Office for…

More than 1,200 public health leaders have called for the tobacco and vapes bill to be passed swiftly through parliament to “protect future generations”.They said in…

Cigarette filters do not work and are a major source of plastic pollution that should be banned by the UK government, experts have said.In an editorial…

People who stop smoking in middle age can reduce their cognitive decline so dramatically that within 10 years their chances of developing dementia are the same…