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Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can extend your innings by up to six years, research has shown. Until now it has not been clear whether fac...
Smoking, binge drinking and lack of exercise have all fallen in recent years - but NHS gastric bypass operations to help the obese lose weight are on ...
Eating egg yolks could be as damaging to your health as smoking cigarettes, a Canadian study has revealed. The cholesterol found in egg yolks accel...
Australia is to introduce the world's "toughest cigarette packaging laws", banning logos on the packets, in a landmark High Court ruling that could ha...
We're engaged in an epic battle with the tobacco industry over plain packaging.
Teens are forgoing drink, drugs and smoking for more wholesome pursuits and healthier lifestyles, new research suggests. But charities warned of be...
Anyone reading the papers this week might have come away with the impression that all over 50s should be hot-footing it down to their local pharmacy and demanding a polypill. So why, you might be wondering, are we not adopting this 'one size fits all' approach straight away?
I don't believe that plain packaging is going to stop all young people from starting smoking, but it may well prevent some from doing so.
A stark report published in The Lancet today suggests that physical inactivity is a greater risk to public health than smoking. Exercise can no lon...
Former smokers gain four to five kilos in weight after they kick the habit, research suggests. Researchers, based in the UK and France, found that ...
Almost two fifths of former smokers think the ban on smoking in public places helped them to quit, research shows. The figures, released on the fif...
It would be disastrous if the government, by introducing plain-packaging legislation, removes the simplest mechanism for the ordinary consumer to tell whether their cigarettes are counterfeit or not.
Although non-smokers may find it hard to believe, cigarettes are intensely pleasurable to those addicted to nicotine. A puff on a cigarette reliev...
A "dangerous" lack of awareness about smoking cannabis could be putting millions of people at risk, a leading charity warned today. Most people (88...
Unhealthy Western ways of living are likely to fuel a massive surge in cancer rates around the world, experts have claimed. A study predicts a more...
It's a plot worthy of Hollywood - a fatal radioactive poison, secret documents, suppressed information, and drugs. But this isn't fiction. This is the story of the tobacco industry's knowledge, policy and inaction around radioactive material in cigarette smoke.
Women who are unable to quit smoking during pregnancy can significantly improve the lung function of their newborns by taking Vitamin C daily, accordi...
Just one disease caused by smoking - lung cancer - was rare before 1930. Over the next 50 years, it rose to become the world's leading cause of cancer death. In countries like Australia it is now on the wane. Plain packaging will accelerate its eventual demise as a major cause of death.
The government will pave the way for cigarette packets to be stripped of all branding, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said. The coalition's pu...
So as this spectre of anti-smoking haunts our great nation, I encourage all who believe in the cause of freedom to stop this militant prohibition against those of us who enjoy our vices, and we must never been made to apologize to anyone for doing so.
A ban on tobacco promotion comes into force on Friday in a bid to cut down on the number of people smoking. The new legislation means all large sho...
Smoking should be considered an "important" risk factor for schizophrenia, a scientist has claimed. Professor Boris Quednow, from the University Ho...
Tobacco duty will rise 5% above inflation - adding a massive 37p on packets of cigarettes from 6pm this evening, the government announced today. In...
An eight-year-old boy who smokes 40 cigarettes a day is to receive therapy to help him kick his four-year habit. Ilham Umar, who lives in Indonesi...
Concerned pupils have written a letter to parents in an attempt to stop them smoking at the school gates. Year Six pupils at King Charles School in...
