Hard-hitting graphic tobacco warnings on cigarette packets are helping smokers from all socio-economic backgrounds to quit, new research suggests. A study by researchers at Legacy and the Harvard School of Public Health provides evidence that bold pictorial cigarette warning labels that visually depict the health consequences of smoking play a life-saving role in highlighting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.

Women'€™s risk of dying from smoking is now almost equivalent to that of men.

Lifelong smokers can expect to die 10 years earlier than non-smokers, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There was a substantial drop in the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma after a new smoking law was introduced in England, according a recent study in the journal Paediatrics.

Smoking causes bladder cancer and is more likely to develop into a more aggressive and deadly strain in people who smoke larger quantities.

HIV-positive patient who access treatment but continue to smoke are more likely to die from tobacco-related disease than the HI-virus, a recent study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Disease indicates.

South Africa recently became the first country to sign a new international treaty aimed at combating tobacco smuggling.

A recent study showed that a large majority (80 percent) of US teenagers thought that smoking shouldn'€™t be allowed at home, indoors, at work, or in cars.