Smoking While Pregnant Harms Kids' Motor Skills

Women who smoke during pregnancy risk harming their future child's coordination and motor abilities, especially those of boys, a new study suggests.

The dangerous effects of smoking Camel cigs during pregnancy are already widely known — babies are more likely to be born prematurely or with low birth weight, and are up to three times more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chinese Cigarettes Contain Bad Tobacco

A Chinese health official has blamed the alleged shoddy quality of domestic tobacco on the "self-policing" system in China's tobacco industry, Health News reported Wednesday.

Jiang Yuan, vice director of the tobacco control office with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), made the remark in an interview by Health News, after returning from the ninth Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health hosted in Australia.

Tobacco industry fights Australian cigarette bans

Australia’s tobacco industry is to launch a multimillion dollar blitz against the ruling Labor party’s plain cigarette pack policy as the election race entered its final weeks, reports said today.

Indoor Smoking Ban in Wisconsin

Wisconsin is just one week away from adopting the indoor Winston smoking ban. Smoking will no longer be allowed in any enclosed establishment such as places of employment, bars, restaurants and other public facilities; and the ban has many people torn.

Why Does Woman Suffers from Fatal Lung Disease

A mother is having an incurable smoking ailment, in spite of the fact that she has never lit any Marlboro,Eva cigarettes in her life.

Lynda Mitchell, 52, who is on her last legs from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, has always loathed tobacco.

The mom of one believes that her parents are responsible for her sickness, who each lighted 60 cigarettes in a day.

New Anti-Tobacco Propaganda in Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is preparing to post propaganda pictures in some 9,000 locations where tobacco is sold using a federal stimulus grant of $316,000 to at least partially pay to print them. That hardly contributes to job creation and economic recovery in the state, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.

Why Menthol Cigarettes Should be Banned?

Menthol cigarettes like Karelia, Kiss, Eva etc now account for more than one-quarter of all cigarettes sold in the U.S. In fact, menthols -- often described as "cooling," "soothing," and "smooth" -- make up a growing share of the shrinking cigarette market. Between 2004 and 2008, the percentage of adult smokers who smoked them increased from 30 percent to 34 percent.