At his weekly gentleman’s club in a village not far from the Kenyan capital, Francis Marimbe Mwathi gathers his friends to dine on “the meat of men”.

Just 14 percent of New York City adults said they were smokers in 2010, the lowest level since the city began tracking the smoking rate nearly two decades ago, according to a survey released on Thu

Cancer specialists and public health officials optimistic that incidence of cancer will come down
With the Union Health Ministry categorising pan masala and gutka as banned food products because they contain tobacco, there is fresh hope among cancer specialists and public health officials that incidence of cancer caused by these items will come down.

This should come as a serious wake up call for female smokers.

Cafe Mocha on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that hookahs are far less dangerous than cigarettes asthey contain less quantity of nicotine and are not easily available.

Tobacco use is rising in Pakistan, with about 30.7 per cent of men estimated to be smokers, while 100,000 people die from tobacco-related causes annually, said doctors at a press conference on Thur

Add yet another item to the long list of damaging effects of secondhand smoke: hearing loss in teenagers.

Researchers, writing in the July issue of The Archives of Otolaryngology

Health Minister of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena will launch a programme named '4 by 4 by 4' to deal with four main diseases, four risk factors and four commitments today at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH).

The programme organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health Ministry of Sri Lanka aims to mobilize commitments and actions to address Non C