People who are constantly exposed to the smoke of wood and tobacco smoke at greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and for experiencing more frequent and severe symptoms of the disease, as well as more severe airway obstruction than those who are exposed to only one type of smoke, according to the results of a new population-based study conducted by researchers at Columbia. The results of the study will be presented at the ATS 2013 Conference International.

People who quit smoking have a lower risk of heart attack or stroke than smokers – even if they put a few extra pounds in the process, according to a new study.

In an interview shortly before his death last week at 79, Briers – national treasure for his role in TV’s The Good Life – praised his nicotine habit saw him snort half a cigarette in his life. Although abandoned decades ago, it was too late: he spent the last years of his life to control breathing too climbing stairs due to lung disease.

BAT aims are to transform the electronic cigarettes on the drug in the UK.

Bulgaria’s president called for a new political culture that would prevent citizens, to try to steam a surge of popular discontent.

Thousands of smokers across Northern Ireland today were designed to stop this habit and keep the package as one month countdown to No Smoking Day on Wednesday March 13 starts.

Taste and ingredients of cigarettes will be regulated, controlled smoking in movies and the cost of tobacco will sky rocket under radical government plan to stop one million Australians smoke.

A ban on large stores and supermarkets in Wales began displaying tobacco.