For smokers with asthma, quitting smoking can improve lung function test scores by more than 15 percent in less than two months. The findings appear in the second issue for July 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society. Neil C. Thomson, M.D., of the Departments [...]

More than half a million Canadian smokers have lit up in bed and about 116,000 of them admit to dozing off with a lighted cigarette, posing an obvious risk of sparking a fire. Those are just some of the statistics about the behaviour of smokers revealed in the most recent Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey [...]

AS the second-hand swept past midnight last night, smoking – or not smoking – was the last thing on the minds of sports fans at coffee shops here. The smoking ban at eating places had come into effect at the stroke of midnight. Still, many had cigarettes hanging from their lips as their eyes stayed [...]

Scientists from the University of Western Australia are encouraging people who drink alcohol not to smoke cigarettes. A report prepared for the Australian Council of Smoking and Health shows that people who drink and smoke are up to five times more likely to develop head and neck cancers than those who only drink or only [...]

A new report on the dangers of second-hand smoke has authorities across the country scrambling to strengthen their local smoking ordinances — including Houston, where City Council could push for a ban in all public buildings when the ordinance comes up for review in September. Surgeon General Richard Carmona said yesterday that there’s evidence that [...]