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Only one in 10 hospitals in England enforces a smoking ban outside health service buildings, and Public Health England (PHE) wants all hospitals to offer help to quit as part…

“Smoking tobacco is the most harmful way that people can get their nicotine fix,” says Dr Joanna Miller of a London-based Stop Smoking Service in a Times article about Stoptober…

The rise in popularity of e-cigarettes in the UK may have resulted in more successful attempts to quit smoking, according to UK researchers. But health professionals say the most effective…

It was more than 50 years ago that a key report was published that marked the beginning of a change in people’s relationship with smoking. Although there had been previous…

The recent news that police are choosing not to enforce a new law protecting children from people smoking in cars has again brought the habit into focus along with the…

Plain packaging for cigarettes can have a massive impact on health, says the World Health Organization, if it becomes a global normal. And, according to the BBC, moves to introduce…

While the anti-smoking lobby in the UK is spreading, with the Nottinghamshire County Council banning of employees from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes in its buildings, land and in its vehicles,…

It has been revealed that nearly half of women who give up smoking during their pregnancies start again soon after they give birth and Public Health England says more action…

The legal ban on smoking in public places does not apply to state prisons in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The case was brought by an…

A recent study claims that using e-cigarettes to stop smoking does not work, saying people who used these to wean themselves off the habit were less successful than those who…