To many countries around the world, Singapore, a small and highly prosperous country is a model state, often serving as an inspiration, prototype and testing ground for the implementation of policies ...

As this city prepares to host Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, smoking regulations are becoming increasingly strict. A citywide ban ...

Smoking had already been banned on the Nagano (Hokuriku), Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines after the Health Promotion Law, which requires companies to prevent secondhand smoking ...

But an evaluation of 47 previous studies, including 14 newer papers, “found high-certainty evidence this time that indeed they help people who are pregnant quit smoking and stay quit,” senior ...

Researchers say a new pooled data analysis shows that bans on direct and indirect tobacco advertising should be expanded ...

The ordinance is stricter than the central government’s revised Health Promotion Law, which also takes effect on April 1. The new law permits smoking at establishments that are up to 100 square ...

Tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS ... chief executive of the UK charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said in an e-mail to Euronews Health, adding that these companies ...