British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed Thursday reports that his government is considering plans to ban smoking in outdoor spaces such as pub gardens in a nanny state-style intervention.
Police in Delaware are looking for a suspect accused of getting away with a mountain of loot from a local pharmacy.
The Biden administration decided to delay a ban on menthol cigarettes after receiving criticism from black voters and cigarette companies.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em. That’s the message from New Zealand’s incoming conservative coalition government which has vowed to scrap the nation’s smoking ban to fund tax cuts across the broader community and stem any possibility of starting a black market.
President Joe Biden’s FDA is pushing to ban menthol cigarettes after it has pressed for safe crack pipe distribution and marijuana reform.
The allegedly “Conservative” government of Rishi Sunak is reportedly looking to impose an effective ban on cigarettes for the next generations of Britons.
Loneliness has caused serious health risks, as nearly half of adults across the nation say they have experienced the feeling, the U.S. surgeon general said, declaring a public health epidemic.
Tobacco giant fined $635.2 million by the U.S. for breaking sanction rules to sell product to North Korea over a ten-year period.
Govts worldwide may be trying to stub out the habit, but one top politician gets a private rooftop smoking room so he can puff in peace.
Politically correct health bosses in the United Kingdoom have banned the use of the word “alcoholic” for supposedly being too offensive.
Restrictions placed on cigarettes by “progressive” lawmakers further strain an already-fragile relationship between police and the communities they are tasked to protect, according to an expert who spoke to Breitbart News.
During the Overtime segment of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that the Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is “racist” because it will give the police “more of a reason to get involved with black
President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to issue a regulation that would remove nearly all nicotine from cigarettes sold in the United States in an attempt to get people to quit smoking.
Gun control proponent David Hogg spoke at the June 11 March for Our Lives rally and suggested it is time to treat guns the way anti-tobacco activists treated cigarettes.
Italian police claim that Ukrainian refugees have been exploited by criminals creating counterfeit cigarettes in a town just south of Rome and say they have arrested the man behind the operation. Italian police say that a total of ten foreigners
Oxfordshire is looking to become the first “smoke-free” county in England by the year 2025, with proposals to ban smoking in outdoor spaces.
A driver suffered burns and his car was destroyed following an accident involving a cigarette and hand sanitizer in Maryland on Thursday.
“The Biden administration is considering requiring tobacco companies to lower the nicotine in all cigarettes sold in the U.S. to levels at which they are no longer addictive,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
The Biden administration and media are not hiding the fact that a ban on menthol cigarettes is targeted at black people.
President Joe Biden plans to ban menthol cigarettes despite concerns from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that it would fuel racial injustice.
An Algerian and a Syrian have been sentenced to four and five years in prison, respectively, after stabbing a teenager for refusing to give them a cigarette.
The sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes, menthol rolling tobacco and capsule cigarettes have been banned in the UK under an EU directive.
Petrol pumps in Britain should carry climate change warning labels akin to the legally-mandated health warnings on cigarette packages, a group of scientists have said.
The number of adult smokers in the United States has hit an all-time low of 13.7 percent in 2018, according to the CDC.
A restaurant owner has apologized for spraying a man in the face with a fire extinguisher when he refused to stop smoking a cigarette outside his restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday.
A Canadian driver was charged with a hefty fine after a police chief caught him tossing a cigarette out the window last Saturday.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff claimed Facebook is the “new cigarettes” and should be regulated as such in an interview on Wednesday, doubling down on similar comments he made earlier this year.
A New York City councilman introduced a bill that would make it illegal to smoke while walking in the city’s latest attempt to wage war on smoking.
Mammoth tobacco-fueled corporation Philip Morris announced that they are “trying to give up cigarettes.”
Pope Francis has issued his personal version of “Thank you for not smoking,” announcing a ban on the sale of cigarettes in the Vatican to go into effect in 2018.
Beginning November 1, cigarettes and other tobacco products will disappear from the shelves of stores in dozens of military bases around the country as the army steps up its fight against smoking, the Israel Defense Force’s manpower chief said Sunday.
New York City is now the most expensive place in the U.S. to buy cigarettes thanks to a new price hike Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Monday.
People living in the United Kingdom are the second least free in Europe in terms of access and freedom to enjoy tobacco, alcohol, and sugary food and drink, according to a new study which records increasing regulation on such items across the continent.
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic is one step away from losing its status of one of the last havens for tobacco smokers in Europe.
On August 17 Psychology Today equated persuading minds to support gun control with persuading minds to support arguments for climate change.
Scottish-born Talking Heads frontman David Byrne weighed in on America’s gun control debate in an essay posted to his website Wednesday, suggesting that guns should be reframed as a “public health hazard” and, as such, regulated like cigarettes and “sugary drinks.”
With liberal billionaire Tom Steyer’s “Save Lives Coalition” gathering more than the 585,407 signatures required to put a $2-per-pack cigarette tax on the November ballot, California is poised to become the smuggling capital of America. By contributing $74 million to Democrats
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday that raises the state’s legal smoking age to 21, and restricts the use of e-cigarettes — “vaping” — in public places.
On Thursday, the California Assembly voted to raise the legal age for smoking from 18 to 21.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A Singapore-based court has refused a challenge by Philip Morris to Australia’s landmark plain packaging legislation passed in 2011, which the tobacco giant had brought under a bi-lateral trade treaty with Hong Kong, the company said. The
