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Many hold mistaken beliefs about reducing risks of cigarette smoking

LONDON: Mistaken beliefs about behaviors that could reduce the risks of cigarette smoking are most… Read More

Cigarette filters may increase lung cancer risk

Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar smokers inhale, also alter… Read More

WATCH: Man throws cigarette into sewer, instantly regrets it

A man has miraculously escaped death after throwing a cigarette butt down a sewer hole… Read More

Woman faces jail for lighting cigarette using church candle

MOSCOW: A Russian woman landed herself in a trouble after she used a church candle… Read More

Even with one cigarette a day, odds of early death are higher

MARYLAND: Smokers who go through much less than a pack of cigarettes a day still… Read More

What’s in cigarette smoke? Most people don’t know

Many people in a recent study said they’d tried to find out what chemicals are… Read More

Smokers may try to quit 30 times before it sticks

Though conventional wisdom says it takes five to seven attempts for most smokers to quit,… Read More

North Korean anti-tobacco push up in smoke as Kim keeps puffing

SEOUL: A North Korean anti-smoking campaign has apparently failed to persuade young leader Kim Jong-Un to… Read More

E-cigarette poisonings on rise in young kids

Electronic cigarettes are sickening a growing number of young kids, usually because children drink the… Read More

No rules apply to a minister as Khuhro freely smokes inside Sindh Assembly

KARACHI: Senior Sindh minister Nisar Khuhro Tuesday violated the sanctity of the Sindh Assembly by… Read More

Cigarette warnings on packages work better with pictures

NORTH CAROLINA: Gruesome photographs on cigarette packages may deliver more effective anti-smoking messages than words,… Read More

Plain cigarette packs with health warnings may encourage quitting

Plain cigarette packages adorned with graphic health warnings may make smokers more likely to consider… Read More

Raising legal age to 21 would cut cigarette smoking: study

MIAMI: If people could not get cigarettes until the age of 21, lives would be… Read More

E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times carcinogens: Japan research

TOKYO: E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times the level of cancer-causing agents in regular tobacco,… Read More