The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

He has been tobacco free for eight months and decided to stop smoking after losing his wife Mattie to COPD.

From whiskey masterclasses to Guinness and oyster competitions, Millie Milliken and Mike Daw hunt out the best craic

New Zealand’s smokefree law, which came into effect in January, introduces several world-first endgame measures, including removing most nicotine from smoked products, disallowing product sales to anyone born on or after January 1 2009, and a major reduction in the number of tobacco retail outlets nationwide (from about 6000 to…

It took a half century for the first American Surgeon General Report to establish the link between tobacco and lung cancer. In response, companies infiltrated media and genetically modified tobacco leaves to make them even more addictive.

A neighbor lent him a house to dry leaves, and he had a little fertilizer saved, so he plucked up the courage to plant

Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, opened its tobacco-selling season Wednesday, with a speech by the vice president and eager international buyers

A small study that compared the lungs of cigarette smokers with e-cigarette smokers found that e-cigarette smokers had more lung inflammation than those who smoked tobacco. The pilot study, published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, is the first to use PET imaging to compare smokers’ lungs with vapers’ lungs.

As the sweltering morning sun beat down on them, about half a dozen young Zimbabwean women stacked green tobacco leaves into sheaves while another group, some with babies on their backs, loaded the harvested crop onto a tractor.

South Africa has declared a second national state of disaster in less than three years.

Homes in the country’s lowest income group containing two or more people who smoke will spend more than £6,000 on tobacco this year

Cancer Research UK insists the Government should do more to prevent young people start smoking