The average nonsmoker walking into a smoke-filled room might not think short-term exposure to cigarette smoke will affect them. But a new study suggests that even small amounts of secondhand smoke can cause life-threatening changes to a nonsmokers' circulatory system. ...

Austria will fit the nation's 8,000 cigarette machines with special technology to prevent youths under age 16 from buying tobacco, officials said Friday. ...

Smoker parents are ignoring advice and continuing to put their kids' health at risk by lighting up around them, researchers have said. The warning comes as the NHS relaunches a series of adverts showing young children breathing out smoke. ...

Opponents say the memo -- which outlines several novel product proposals for tobacco -- may provide the Food and Drug Administration with a powerful piece of evidence that the tobacco industry markets nicotine as a drug that should be regulated. At a time when the tobacco industry was saying it was doing all it could to make smoking unattractive to kids, once-secret documents show that one cigarette company considered new tobacco-based candies including lollipops, fruit roll-ups and a ``cotton candy like product.'' ...

In response to the urgency of the rising incidence of cancer, WHO Member States have today approved a resolution on Cancer Prevention and Control at the 58th World Health Assembly in Geneva. ...

When millions of Americans abandoned smoking in the 1980s, many health experts and social scientists thought they had tobacco on the run. But in the '90s progress began to slow: From 1990 to 2003, according to federal figures, only 3 percent of Americans gave up their cigarettes. ...

State officials want to break smokers of a dangerous habit. Officials worry that cigarette butts flicked from a vehicle could be the flash point for fast-burning fires along Arizona's highways. ...

NEW YORK -- A judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by a 115-year-old private club that sought to strike down no-smoking laws so it could continue to honor its members -- who include Walter Cronkite and Carol Burnett -- with ceremonies that include lighting up. ...

A historic, internationally known bar in Key West pushed through a bill in the Florida Legislature this spring that would allow bars in historic buildings to double the amount of food they can sell and still be exempt from the smoking ban. ...