A striking survey of smoking trends in Uruguay, published in the Lancet, has demonstrated the difference that a comprehensive raft of anti-smoking measures can make, in comparison with a neighbouring country (Argentina) where such measures have only very recently...

It has been a busy and headline-grabbing few days at the 15th Conference on Tobacco OR Health, being held in Singapore, attended by a record 124 countries. In a major step forward for tobacco control in developing countries, Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged...

In 2006, Scotland brought in a ban on smoking in public places, and a study that has looked at the number of premature births and small birthweight babies (for which smoking is a known risk factor) born between 1996 and 2009 has traced the numbers born just prior...

China is home to the China National Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco producer in the world.  As China is also the world’s largest single tobacco consumer, with a firmly entrenched smoking population of an estimated 300 million users – including over 50%...