Chronic diseases are health ministers' target: WHO
The world's health ministers have agreed to try to cut premature deaths from chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease...
Smoking Cessation - News
Lung cancer tests advised for some heavy smokers
New recommendations from chest and cancer doctors call for lung cancer screening in older adults with a long history of smoking...
Data suggest drug treatment can lower U.S. crime
U.S. crime statistics show illegal drugs play a central role in criminal acts, providing new evidence that tackling drugs...
Oregon attorney general race puts spotlight on pot
A vote for Oregon's top law enforcement post on Tuesday has turned into a referendum on pot, with one candidate wanting to...
Marijuana may ease multiple sclerosis symptoms
People with multiple sclerosis have long said that smoking marijuana helps ease their painful muscle cramping. And a new...
Connecticut Senate passes medical marijuana bill
The Connecticut Senate passed a bill on Saturday legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes with tight restrictions aimed...
Review finds Chantix may not raise heart risks
A review of past research concludes that people taking Pfizer's smoking-cessation drug Chantix do not have a higher risk...
Some support for quit-smoking alternatives
Acupuncture and hypnosis are touted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they...
Colorado lights up pot debate by blazing regulatory trail
At a Denver dispensary for medical marijuana, state inspector Mark Brown makes his usual checks, verifying that employees...
Big tobacco groups fear spread of plain packaging
The world's top tobacco groups fear if new rules on plain packaging take hold in Australia and Britain they may spread to...
UK mulls plain cigarette packs to cut smoking
Britain could soon force cigarette makers to sell plain, brand-free packets as the government seeks to deter a habit which...
Big Tobacco pays states $6.5 billion under accord
Three of the biggest tobacco companies said on Monday they have paid a total of $6.5 billion this year to states under a...
Nicotine patch may help prevent smoking relapses
Nicotine patches may help smokers recover from any initial setbacks in their attempt to kick the habit, a new U.S. study...
Menthol smokers have more strokes: study
New research suggests that among smokers, those who prefer mentholated cigarettes tend to have more strokes than non-menthol...
Arizona law will bar medical marijuana at colleges
Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Tuesday a bill to ban medical marijuana from being used on the...
WHO brokers deal to stamp out tobacco smuggling
Health officials on Wednesday provisionally agreed a global deal to combat tobacco smuggling, a trade the World Health Organisation...
Feds raid 'Princeton of Pot' in California
U.S. federal agents, pressing a government clampdown on medical marijuana, raided a San Francisco Bay-area college known...
FDA: Big Tobacco must tell you what you're smoking
U.S. health regulators said on Friday tobacco companies must report how much formaldehyde, nicotine or any of 18 other harmful...
Cancer killing younger people in India
Cancer is killing younger people in India and affecting far more poor and less-educated villagers than wealthier, better-educated...
Supreme court refuses tobacco firm appeal in smoker case
The Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co in a Florida case in which it was...
Bloomberg charity adds $220 mln to anti-smoke effort
Michael Bloomberg's charitable foundation will commit $220 million over the next four years to fight tobacco use globally,...
Smoking deaths triple over decade: tobacco report
Tobacco-related deaths have nearly tripled in the past decade and big tobacco firms are undermining public efforts that could...
Court: Tobacco health labels constitutional
A federal law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech...
Ad campaign shows smoking's scary side
Health officials launched a $54 million advertising campaign on Thursday depicting the health risks of smoking in gruesome...
C$27 billion suit vs Big Tobacco starts in Montreal
Canada's three biggest tobacco companies, all with multinational parents, face C$27 billion ($27.30 billion) in damages and...
50 years since UK warning, smoking still big killer
Fifty years after top doctors issued their first stark warning about the dangers of cigarettes, more than 20 percent of Britons...
Obama admin appeals ruling on tobacco health label
The Obama administration on Monday appealed a decision that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation requiring tobacco...
Recreational marijuana measure to be put to voters
Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in a November ballot measure,...
Nicotine quick-fix mouth spray helps some quitters
A mouth spray that delivers a dose of nicotine faster than patches and gums may help some smokers quit long-term, suggests...
More troops on smokeless tobacco after deployment
U.S. troops sent to Iraq or Afghanistan are more likely to start a smokeless tobacco habit than their comrades who stay home...
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