Getting rid of indoor smoking in prisons is about as popular as replacing jelly-filled donuts with cold gruel in the chow hall. A review team told Gov. Ted Strickland that the new state law banning indoor smoking is among the five most controversial regulations in the prison system. Though a ban has been in place [...]

A smoker was sacked having a fag break at the factory where he worked. Dad-of-one John Smith was sheltering from the rain in a doorway yards from an official smoking bay when he was caught. Bosses at the Michelin Tyres factory, in Dundee, sacked the 35-year-old on the spot for gross misconduct. But tyre technician [...]

The first drug designed to help smokers quit without the use of nicotine has been licensed for use in the Scottish NHS. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is due to announce today that it has approved Champix after clinical trials showed that nearly half of smokers given the drug were able to give up their [...]

After the City Council voted 6-3 in favor of an anti-smoking measure, Bangor, Maine will become the first city to ban smoking in a motor vehicle when children under the age of 18 are present. Although similar statewide measures have been adopted in Arkansas and Louisiana, Bangor is the first city to adopt such an [...]

John Greene is one of Hong Kong’s 800,000 or so smokers who’ve been grappling with a citywide smoking ban that came into effect this year. Advert for The Scotsman Digital Archive The long-time smoker jokes the ban has overturned one of the traditions of the century-old Kowloon Cricket Club he belongs to. “They really hit [...]