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China to enact indoor smoking ban

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...

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Birth complications fall in Scotland…

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)...

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Strong words and hard cash

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...

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Uruguay: it can be done!

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...

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World No Tobacco Day 2013

Every year, nations across the world join forces to support and promote World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) on 31 May (click here >>). Together with the World Health Organization, we pause for the day,...

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Malaysia cracks down on smoking

The New Straits Times reports: ‘In an all-out war against smoking, the [Malaysian] Health Ministry will raise the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products, including cigarettes, from 18 to 21. A new...

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Welsh antismoking campaign launched

BBC News reports: ‘A campaign to raise awareness of a ban on smoking in cars carrying children has begun, in advance of the law coming into force in Wales on 1 October. Billboards and posters will...

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PHE releases sugar reduction report

NHS Behind the Headlines says: ‘”A sugar tax of up to 20 per cent is need[ed] on fizzy drinks and fattening snacks,” the Daily Mail reports. It is one of eight recommendations from Public Health...

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