Sons of mothers who smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy have lower sperm counts than sons whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study from Denmark. ...

In the battle between cigarette advertising and anti-smoking campaigns, it looks like kids are losing. Smoking: Risk, Perception and Policy, a book just released by the Annenberg Public Policy Center from its Washington, D.C., offices suggests that young people still associate smoking with popularity and relaxation, despite the messages about the health risks of tobacco that are carried in anti-smoking ads. ...

Rebuffed at least initially by the Assembly, health and child-advocacy groups are hoping the Senate will give new life to an attempt to make California the first state to outlaw smoking in motor vehicles carrying young children. Meanwhile, the author of a bill to bar smoking on state beaches put off a vote in a Senate committee, saying the measure needed amendments. ...

Passive smoking is damaging the health of almost half the world's children, the World Health Organisation warned Wednesday as it pushes support for a global treaty on tobacco control. ...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Wednesday sued supermarket giant Safeway Inc. for allegedly selling cigarettes to minors and failing to take adequate steps to prevent further sales at its stores. ...

Smoking among U.S. high school students has fallen to about one in five — the lowest level in at least a generation — in a drop-off the government attributes to anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette taxes. ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. tobacco companies are targeting teens around the world using marketing practices they have been forced to abandon in the United States, according to a study by an anti-tobacco group of Florida teens released on Wednesday. ...

SACRAMENTO -- Steven Sellers likes the taste and smell of Middleton's Black and Mild pipe-tobacco cigars. He's been smoking them for more than a year and he doesn't plan on stopping. At least for now. The agencies that monitor tobacco abuse among minors think it is a big deal. ...

Move over Joe Camel, there's a new tobacco symbol in town. ...

Should all teenagers be given a vaccine that blocks the effects of nicotine and so prevents them from becoming addicted to the evil weed? ...