Deputy Solicitor General Sanjay Rajaratnam yesterday told the Supreme Court that the State would not enforce till July 11, the gazette regulations stipulating that cigarette packets contain pictori

Indonesia told cigarette makers on Tuesday to start putting graphic warnings on cigarette packaging, the government's boldest step to reduce smoking in the world's third-largest cigarette market.

Tobacco claimed as many as 57,000 lives and crippled 3.82 lakh in the country every year, according to a written statement issued by Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) on Monday.

In a surprising demand of cigarettes in a small settlement of Olangchungola with 54 households, approximately Rs 100,000 worth of ‘cancer sticks’ are sold every month.

E-cigarettes require strict regulation at a time when there’s been little research into potential harm, more than 100 scientists told the World Health Organization in a letter.

Two other hospitals are Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital and Government Staff Hospital

Stress-relief is cited single largest reason for picking up the habit

The Republic of Ireland has become the first country in Europe to try to pass a law banning the sale of branded cigarette and tobacco packets.

Public health and tobacco control activists called for a comprehensive ban on all forms of tobacco advertising and promotion in the nation's advertisement law, which is being revised.