The Latest Breaking News from Smoking

Footage taken by a passenger onboard shows cops entering the plane before taking the man who was dressed in a grey t-shirt, shorts, a baseball cap and flip flops to a waiting squad car.

The flip flop-wearing passenger allegedly lit up '20 minutes after take-off'

Smoking has a lethal impact on our health, new figures show.

Japan is known for its healthy diet and impressive life expectancy. But it is also a smoker’s paradise. Although the number of smokers has dropped by a third over the past 20 years, more than 17 million Japanese smoke regularly. The authorities are trying to make more public spaces smoke-free,…

The number of smokers in France is no longer falling with a quarter of the population – 12 million people – saying they smoked cigarettes every day, according to a study published Wednesday to mark World No Tobacco Day.

Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden's outdoor bars and restaurants

Charity estimates that tobacco causes more than 4,300 cancer deaths each year in the capital

The concerned parent has spotted groups of teens flocking to shops in Byker to buy vapes

Health warnings on individual cigarettes and new graphic images on cigarette packets are among changes the federal government plans to introduce.

"Greater Manchester has made enormous progress over the past few years"

Over the course of the 20th century, tobacco smoking killed around 100 million people, most of whom lived in today's rich countries. Today the health burdens of smoking are moving from high-income to low- and middle-income countries. Some estimates even suggest that one billion people could die from tobacco use…