Bad news for the tobacco industry and smokers in France. Health Minister Marisol Touraine will announce strict new tobacco control measure next month that are expected to ban any branding on cigarette packs. The French daily Le Figaro reports that the overall effect of the new measures will be as radical as the original 1991 Évin law that banned the advertising of cigarettes, as well as the 2007 decree ending smoking in public spaces.

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Ask any smoker: quitting is hard. Cigarettes become a part of your daily life, a habit that's not only hard to break, but hard to keep track of. "Tracking is one of the most important factors in one's health," Ata Ghofrani told us at a recent Haxlr8r event. "Being cognizant of our smoking behavior."

Treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with stimulant medication may reduce smoking risk, especially when medication is taken consistently, according to an analysis led by researchers at Duke Medicine. The findings appear online May 12, 2014, in the journal Pediatrics.

A new company is trying to invent the safest, most sophisticated electronic cigarette on the market. But unless you’re trying to quit smoking, the firm’s founder says the product isn’t for you: It’s intended to be a new kind of inhaler that delivers a precise, physician-approved dose of nicotine to help smokers break their tobacco habit.

More than half of the cigarettes sold in New York State are smuggled in from other places to avoid the Empire State's taxes on smokes, which have soared nearly 200 percent since 2006, according to a report issued by the conservative Tax Foundation.

When e-cigarettes were introduced many years ago, most smokers hated the idea of a cigarette without any tobacco and claimed that it will never work. But the fact of the matter is that the e-cigarettes being sold today recreate the entire cigarette smoking experience to the T including the vapor and a little red light at the tip of the e-cig which glows whenever you inhale through the cigarette. I will even go as far as saying that no one will be able to tell whether you are smoking a regular ci

When anti-smoking advocate La Tanisha Wright looked at the details of an agreement reached last month between the three largest American tobacco companies, the Justice Department and a coalition of anti-tobacco groups, she said her "heart dropped."

A surprising number of people smoke often but still don't consider themselves smokers, according to a new study.

Let's Not Wage War on Smokers Quitting smoking is good. Stigmatizing smokers isn't.

Cigarettes have been sold in pharmacies for so long that we rarely contemplate the inherent contradiction: stocking the leading cause of preventable death next to prescriptions and vitamins.

Health chief says toxic chemicals in the devices may prove to be 'extremely damaging' to young

Smokers now have much higher chance of lung cancer than did smokers in 1960s, report finds.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general first declared that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Popular Science readers could have known that was coming.

The member states and the European Parliament reached agreement on a new tobacco products directive which will alter several regulation related to EU’s tobacco industry such as packaging, ingredients, and e-cigarettes. The directive effects Finland as well.

As more smokers take to electronic cigarettes, the debate about the impact “vaping” — as using the products is called — could have in the fight against tobacco smoking is becoming more acute. On one side, the head of one of Europe’s leading electronic cigarette industry groups has slammed the World Health Organization (WHO) for its lack of support for the booming e-cigarette market.

New York's City Council has approved extending the city's strict smoking ban to include electronic cigarettes, which emit a vapor. The measure was pushed by outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by public health advocates in the city. It comes just weeks after New York became the first major city to raise the age for buying tobacco to 21.

The industry is warning countries that their tobacco laws violate an expanding web of treaties, raising the prospect of costly, prolonged legal battles.

All new behaviours raise complex questions of etiquette. The sudden ubiquity of e-cigarettes – electronic substitutes for the cancer sticks of old – is challenging our assumptions about where it is appropriate to "smoke". More than a million people are using them in the UK and, according to Bloomberg, on present trends they will outsell conventional cigarettes by 2047. So is it OK to "fire up" in an office? In a restaurant? In a hospital bed?

Chicago would ban e-cigarettes wherever smoking is prohibited and snuff out the sale of menthol and flavored tobacco products in a wider area around schools, under a mayoral crackdown timed to coincide with a cigarette tax hike of 75 cents a pack.