The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is threatening to pull e-cigarettes like Juul off the market because they’re proving too popular with the kids.

A woman has been arrested on Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her child taken into protective custody after a Facebook video of the baby smoking went viral, police said.

A New York City councilman introduced a bill that would make it illegal to smoke while walking in the city’s latest attempt to wage war on smoking.

VIENNA (Reuters) – While much of the West has barred smoking in restaurants and bars, Austria’s impending ban is set to be stubbed out.

Pope Francis has issued his personal version of “Thank you for not smoking,” announcing a ban on the sale of cigarettes in the Vatican to go into effect in 2018.

New research claims that teenagers used to smoking e-cigarettes containing high levels of nicotine are likely to move onto smoking conventional cigarettes.

Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) is planning to ban obese patients and smokers from having surgery unless they lose weight or kick the habit.

Beginning November 1, cigarettes and other tobacco products will disappear from the shelves of stores in dozens of military bases around the country as the army steps up its fight against smoking, the Israel Defense Force’s manpower chief said Sunday.

In approximately 30 days, the only place Laguna Beach residents and visitors will be able to smoke legally will be in their cars or homes.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic is one step away from losing its status of one of the last havens for tobacco smokers in Europe.

Populist firebrand Rodrigo Duterte is ready to assume the presidency of the Philippines in June, preparing an array of zero-tolerance laws against crime, including bans on public smoking and late-night drinking. What he will not be preparing for is a move into the presidential palace, he says, because he has been there and it is haunted.

A new federal ad campaign urges transgendered and gay Americans to stop smoking, warning that their lifestyle choices are no reason to choose to smoke cigarettes.

Europe’s suicidal green energy policies are killing at least 4o,000 people a year. That’s just the number estimated to have died in the winter of 2014 because they were unable to afford fuel bills driven artificially high by renewable energy tariffs.

Every single film which happens to show characters smoking should be automatically given an over 18 certification, the World Heath Organisation (WHO) has demanded.   In their new report, Smoke-free Movies, published today, the international body said that 44 per cent

Not content with merely educating people as to the health risks associated with tobacco, anti-smoking campaigners and politicians in Australia are considering a ban on under-25s being able to smoke, and even a rolling blanket ban. The latest front in the

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health (APPG), chaired by Bob Blackman MP has called for yet another increase in tobacco taxes. The Conservative MP for Harrow East is recommending to Parliament, “that the tobacco tax escalator be increased

A new study finds that more college-age kids are now smoking pot than they are tobacco.

A ban on smoking outside may soon become a reality if the Royal Society for Public Health’s (RSPH) proposals are adopted. The areas specifically affected are outside restaurants, school gates, in parks and even in pub gardens. The RSPH cites the smoking ban

Children in their early teens are less likely to have smoked, consumed alcohol or taken drugs than ever before, new figures reveal. The annual Health and Social Care Information Centre survey of 6,000 pupils aged 11 to 15 found that record

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), one of Britain’s most influential lobby groups, has released a new report today demanding that the tobacco industry is “forced” to pay to stop people smoking – in a ‘get turkeys to vote for

Is President Obama smoking again?

British government officials are urging all low and medium security mental health units to go ‘smoke free’, effectively forcing patients off cigarettes. Clinical experts warn that making patients quit against their will is illegal, contravening the Mental Health Act and setting

California State Senators voted Tuesday to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, by a vote of 26-8.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a concerted effort to reduce smoking among its members, and the Defense Advisory Committee will propose two options to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter: raise the price of tobacco on military bases and create more tobacco-free zones on the bases.

California lawmakers and health organizations are pushing legislation that would increase the state tax on cigarettes by $2 per pack.

Pregnant smokers in Ohio who quit smoking will be rewarded with free diapers, courtesy of a state grant from the health department’s Child and Family Health Services.

Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, is offering new legislation to ban cigarettes in national TV and film productions, leading 20 of country’s top film virtuosos to express outrage at the proposal.

Yesterday’s announcement by the government that they will bring a vote on legislation to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes before the next general election in May has already caused splits in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Spanish police have arrested two former members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as part of an investigation into money laundering and tobacco smuggling, as the crack down on tobacco products makes the crime more lucrative. Donna Maguire and Leonard

Drivers who smoke with children in the car would be fined £50, under plans being prepared by ministers. The plan aims to protect kids from second hand smoke by creating a new criminal offence – with police empowered to issue