Southeast Asia once had the highest rates of tobacco use, affecting three-quarters of men. But the region has cut smoking ...

The world is smoking less, but the tobacco epidemic is far from over. A new WHO global report shows the number of tobacco users has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024. Since 2010 ...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects involved in an armed robbery from earlier this year. Investigators said the robbery happened on March 26 ...

GROVETON, Texas (KTRE) - A Groveton woman was injured by an explosion early Tuesday when she tried to light a cigarette while on oxygen, Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace said. The woman was ...

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) — A Beaverton woman is charged with several crimes, including four counts of bias crime, after a police say she went on a racist tirade at a TriMet MAX stop. According to court ...

Growing up in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Aitana V. remembers being a young girl and not seeing anyone from her school or in her community smoke. If the topic of cigarettes even came up, “we talked ...

A major study of 2,652 adults with a substance use history in JAMA Psychiatry showed discontinuing smoking was strongly and positively associated with recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs).

Despite drastically declining rates of smoking, cigarette butts remain the most common form of litter in the world. The world's 1.3 billion smokers produce an estimated 4.5 trillion smoked cigarette ...

Researchers have shown that there is strong evidence that e-cigarette use may act as a gateway to cigarette smoking and other health issues in young people. A review of reviews has revealed that there ...

Cigarette smoking, long-known for its adverse health effects and connection to lung cancers, is at its lowest usage across the United States since officials started tracking rates in 1990, according ...

Christine Emba’s homage to the allure and attractiveness of cigarette smoking (“The Embodied Pleasure of Smoking,” Opinion guest essay, Aug. 10) should itself have a warning label on it. Tobacco use ...