Teen obesity is the panic du jour, but, as Tina Rosenberg reports for the New York Times, “it may be even more important to attack teenage smoking than obesity.” The problem is that the health hazard ...

Using plain, standardized packaging for cigarettes that features graphic health warnings may help reduce smoking rates, at least in part by reducing their appeal, concludes a Cochrane review based on ...

Can Plain Cigarette Packaging Reduce Smoking? Recent findings from a series of studies have shown that tobacco packaging without labels or branding may deter new smokers and prevent habitual smokers ...

Cigarette sales in the United Kingdom have plummeted thanks to a unique strategy – pairing standard packaging with stricter taxation. Cigarette sales were already declining when the European country ...

Introduction of standardized packaging for tobacco products in Australia prompted more smokers to think about quitting and to attempt to quit, show findings of surveys of adults smokers. Introduction ...

LONDON – Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker's lung cells each year. The findings come from a study of the devastating genetic ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new law will strip cigarette packs of all their branding, and tobacco companies aren’t very happy about it If ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A retrospective analysis published in JAMA Cardiology found significant improvement in atherosclerotic CVD risk ...

Law-makers in South East Asia should follow Australia’s lead and stomp out ‘glamourous’ cigarette packaging, says a QUT law academic in the lead-up to World No Tobacco Day (May 31). In 2012 Australia ...