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A Dundee cancer specialist is calling for the age at which people can buy cigarettes to be raised to 21.
Dr Jayant Vaidya, from Ninewells Hospital and the University of Dundee, believes that after that age far fewer people want to start smoking. In October, selling tobacco to under 18s was made illegal, but Dr Vaidya [...]

A group of scientists led by Professor Xavier Pares of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, has published research on AKR1B10, an enzyme that is detected in large quantities only in lung cancers, particularly those caused by smoking. This enzyme can appear even when the cancer has not yet [...]

The AMA is urging all smokers to put their health first in 2008 by making a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking for good.
AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said today that making a clean start at the beginning of the year was an ideal way to tackle the difficult goal of quitting smoking.
“Quitting is hard [...]

Breathing in second-hand tobacco smoke in early infancy boosts the risk of developing allergies, suggests research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax.
The findings are based on parental survey responses from more than 4000 families about their children’s allergies and the environmental factors to which they had been exposed before and after birth.
These included [...]

Public health minister, Shona Robinson announced that health boards will continue to receive £11 million a year to help smokers quit.
Ms Robison said although much work had already been made in reducing the number of Scottish people who smoke, more was still needed to reduce smoking rates even further, particularly among young people.
Speaking at Scotland’s [...]

US research has found that smoking is linked to a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The University of Lausanne looked at 25 studies involving 1.2m patients and found smokers had a 44% increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared with non-smokers, with the risk rising with the number of cigarettes smoked.
The Journal of [...]

When Reverend Raymond Bowman, pastor of Spruce Street Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, brought his concerns about smoking in the African-American community to members of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, little did he know that he would start something of a revolution in local community cancer prevention.
Although [...]

Poorer people are quitting smoking in larger numbers than their better off neighbours, according to a new study.
Of the 1.5 million smokers supported by NHS stop smoking services between 2003 and 2006, researchers found that smokers from poorer areas were using these services - and successfully quitting - more often than those from more affluent [...]

If just 28 deaths from smoking related illness were prevented each year health services in Sheffield would be £1.6 million better off.
The figure has been calculated by health chiefs to show the huge financial benefits to the NHS of saving relatively few lives by persuading people to give up smoking.
In Sheffield, 1,200 people die prematurely [...]

The central government is set to enforce pictorial warnings of oral cancer on all packets of cigarettes manufactured in the country by early 2008.
India, a signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, had issued an order earlier this year stating that all cigarette packets will have warning labels like “Tobacco Kills” in both [...]