Non-smokers should give hotels that allow smoking in certain rooms a wide berth and instead choose completely smoke free hotels, suggests a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

People entering or exiting a building will soon not have to traverse a cloud of cigarette smoke where smokers often congregating for their tobacco fix.

Heart attacks dropped by a third in one Minnesota county in the United States after two smoke-free workplace regulations were implemented, a recent study shows.

Women are advised not to smoke during pregnancy as it can harm the baby’s lungs and lead to problems such as wheezing and asthma. But if a pregnant woman can’t quit smoking, taking vitamin C may help protect their baby’s lungs, new research, presented at the Paediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting, suggests.

PRESS RELEASE: Worldwide, tobacco use kills about six million people per year, and most of the deaths are in Asia.

Tobacco experts recently voiced their concern about the rising prevalence of smoking in the developing world, especially Latin America, which puts these populations at risk of being overwhelmed by a burgeoning cancer epidemic.

Regular exposure to secondhand smoke appears to lower teen girls’ levels of the “good” cholesterol – the substance that reduces heart disease risk, researchers report.