A generational sales ban could transform smoking rates. Success depends on enforcement, funding and resisting industry pressure.

Number of Children in Poverty in Households in Which One or More Adults Smoke Table 3 shows estimated numbers of children in poor households in which one or two parents smoke, by marital status of the ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, new research has found. Published in Nature Communications (15 May), ...

The government has announced plans to expand rules against smoking and vaping. The plans, which are subject to a Department of Health consultation lasting until May, include a ban on smoking and ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers compared nicotine absorption among children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, secondhand vapor, and those with no ...

Children exposed to secondhand vaping had 83.6% lower nicotine absorption than the children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoking. Vaping rather than smoking tobacco indoors substantially reduces ...

Background In 2011/12 approximately 2.3 million children, 17% of children in the UK, were estimated to be in relative poverty. Cigarette smoking is expensive and places an additional burden on ...