The tobacco industry has spent millions in pursuit of its Holy Grail – the cancer-free cigarette. But even if they succeed, smokers might not like it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9509679/Will-smoking-ever-be-safe.html

So smoking does make you cool! Popular kids are more likely to smoke, study says

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199855/Popular-kids-likely-smoke-study-says.html#ixzz25p41y514

Smokers encouraged to join first 'mass quit event

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/smokers-encouraged-to-join-first-mass-quit-event-8119729.html

'Doctors don't always know best:' Student claims he cured debilitating bowel disease by taking up smoking

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2201475/Doctors-dont-know-best-Student-claims-cured-debilitating-bowel-disease-taking-smoking.html#ixzz26CKPYRPp

Indonesian men rank as the world's top smokers, with two out of three of them lighting up in a country where cigarettes cost pennies and tobacco advertising is everywhere.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/9536166/Two-thirds-of-Indonesian-men-smoke.html

Non-smokers regularly exposed to second-hand smoke are 'at risk of damaging their memory'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2202636/Non-smokers-regularly-exposed-second-hand-smoke-risk-damaging-memory.html#ixzz26OGyIXNl

Smokers get fewer hours sleep and a lower quality of rest than non-smokers, scientists claim

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2203140/Smokers-fewer-hours-sleep-lower-quality-rest-non-smokers-scientists-claim.html#ixzz26U3lxxJC

Smoking may make your sleep suffer

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/09September/Pages/Smoking-may-make-your-sleep-suffer.aspx

I lost my dad to dementia. Now I must find out: Will it kill me too? One woman's quest to discover her medical fate

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2207129/As-smoker--woman--Lisa-Buckingham-knew-risk-So-booked-MRI-scan-changed-life-way-expected.html#ixzz27KGkzdoq

Quit chewing tobacco advice issued for UK South Asians http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19718643

Cannabis users can suffer same acute withdrawal symptoms as tobacco smokers when they quit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2209405/Cannabis-users-experience-withdrawal-symptoms-acute-tobacco-smokers-quit.html#ixzz27hzMUlXj

Smoking 'rots' brain, says King's College study http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20463363

Smoking 'rots brain’ causing mental decline

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/11November/Pages/Smoking-rots-brain-causing-mental-decline.aspx

Light smoking 'doubles sudden heart death risk in women' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20676337

High blood pressure is the biggest global killer...but obesity isn't far behind, warn leading scientists

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2247677/High-blood-pressure-smoking-alcohol-biggest-global-killers.html#ixzz2EyFVMqMP

Secondhand smoke linked to childhood meningitis

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/12December/Pages/secondhand-smoke-increases-childhood-meningitis-risk.aspx

New Year anti-smoking campaign highlights cancer risks
Department of health to launch hard-hitting £3m campaign, developed by agency Dare, showing direct link to fatal disease

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/28/new-year-anti-smoking-campaign-cancer-risks

Ex-smokers will soon find out if they’re up to snuff

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9772936/Ex-smokers-will-soon-find-out-if-theyre-up-to-snuff.html

Shame of the secret smoker: How one in three people hides their habit from others... and most are scared of their mother finding out

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2256551/Britain-nation-secret-smokers-30-hiding-habit-others.html#ixzz2GxaOQAea

Tobacco farmers unhappy

http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/lanres/edch/131112_1_1.pdf

Passive smoking can dramatically increase the risk of developing severe dementia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2260145/Passive-smoking-dramatically-increase-risk-developing-severe-dementia.html#ixzz2Hc0v5zY6


Secondhand smoke linked to dementia

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Passive-smoking-link-to-dementia.aspx

Young people who smoke cannabis are more likely to get hooked on cigarettes in later life

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2260798/Young-people-smoke-cannabis-likely-addicted-cigarettes-later-life.html#ixzz2Hi41i2NP

Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control
A study implicates genes in the failure of taxation to get heavy smokers to quit, but the findings are far from clearcut

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/16/poorly-conducted-research-opponents-tobacco-control

Childhood asthma 'admissions down' after smoking ban http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21067532

Casualty anti-smoking storyline axed due to Welsh anti-smoking laws

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/casualty-antismoking-storyline-axed-due-to-welsh-antismoking-laws-8461641.html

Female smoking death risk 'has soared' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21168516

Women's smoking death risk 'highest ever'

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/womens-smoking-death-risk-highest-ever.aspx

Lung cancer 'overtaking breast cancer in European women' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21424754

Smoking ban 'cuts premature births' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21460315

Should ALL smokers over 40 be tested for cancer?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2280741/Smoking-Should-ALL-smokers-40-tested-cancer.html#ixzz2LOD4iORj

Quit smoking now.. and you can still enjoy some good life

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2283352/Quit-smoking--enjoy-good-life.html#ixzz2LrBwUhcT

How your grandmother's smoking habit could give YOU asthma

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2288517/How-grandmothers-smoking-habit-affect-YOUR-health-Cigarettes-affect-generations-line.html#ixzz2Mi6yqVAC

Donated blood older than three weeks could be 'as harmful for health as fatty food or smoking'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291563/Donated-blood-older-weeks-harmful-fatty-food-smoking.html#ixzz2NGzLrYpN

Men smoke to have fun, but for stressed-out women, it's all about preserving inner calm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2292606/Men-smoke-fun-stressed-women-preserving-inner-calm.html#ixzz2NSsPdhgw

Rise in child smokers with more than 200,000 youngsters taking up the habit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9947628/Rise-in-child-smokers-with-more-than-200000-youngsters-taking-up-the-habit.html

Number of children taking up smoking rises 50,000 in a year
About 207,000 children under 16 started smoking in 2011, up from 157,000 the year before, figures show

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/22/number-children-smoking-rises-year

Smoking may be a sign of psychiatric illness, says report, after a third of smokers are found to have a mental disorder
Doctors advised to refer patients who smoke to mental health services after major medical study

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/smoking-may-be-a-sign-of-psychiatric-illness-says-report-after-a-third-of-smokers-are-found-to-have-a-mental-disorder-8554009.html

Smoking ban has led to a 5% fall in emergency hospital admissions for asthma

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2309460/Smoking-ban-led-fall-emergency-hospital-admissions-asthma.html#ixzz2QfTmZfwN

Smoking just a few cigarettes a day can DOUBLE a woman's risk of arthritis

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2312845/Smoking-doubles-womans-risk-developing-rheumatoid-arthritis-scientists-claim.html#ixzz2RENhVK7R

Teenage girls are at a higher risk of health problems from passive smoking than boys

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2317290/Teenage-girls-higher-risk-health-problems-passive-smoking-boys.html#ixzz2Rz4bDidc

Smoking increases risk of bowel cancer in women

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/05May/Pages/Women-smokers-higher-risk-bowel-cancer.aspx

Microlives: the key to living longer and more healthily?

A new book suggests a radical new way of assessing the health risks and benefits of everything from smoking to jogging. How does it work?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/shortcuts/2013/jun/02/microlives-key-to-living-longer

Revealed: The areas of Britain where up to one in three women still smoke while pregnant

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2341527/One-women-Blackpool-smoke-pregnant--mothers-North-East-arent-better.html#ixzz2WGyLmTmA

I like smoking – but I don't want big tobacco to recruit me
The warning labels and smoking ban don't bother me, but I do object to Philip Morris asking me to nag my MP about my 'rights'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/08/proud-smoker-big-tobacco-recruit

Pioneering study claims THIRD-HAND smoke causes significant damage to our DNA - and its danger increases over time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2345815/Pioneering-study-claims-THIRD-HAND-smoke-causes-significant-genetic-mutations--danger-increases-time.html#ixzz2X7qKP0dn

Forget cancer: Fear of wrinkles and impotence are what REALLY stop people smoking

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2347288/Forget-cancer-Fear-wrinkles-impotence-REALLY-stop-people-smoking.html#ixzz2XE39MExd

Bad habits like smoking and drinking cost a MILLION lost years: 50,000 people a year 'die two decades too soon'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2403577/Bad-habits-cost-1m-lost-years-50-000-premature-deaths-year-prevented-better-lifestyle.html#ixzz2dG3RBirJ

Commuters in for a surprise after outbreak of 'zombies' in London to warn smokers of dangers of tobacco
Thirty actors wore specially commissioned Halloween-style masks as part of a stop smoking campaign

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/commuters-in-for-a-surprise-after-outbreak-of--zombies-in-london-to-warn-smokers-of-dangers-of-tobacco-8850988.html

Tobacco firms fuelling black market, MPs say
British tobacco companies are fuelling the black market by deliberately over-supplying their products to European countries, MPs have warned.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10367315/Tobacco-firms-fuelling-black-market-MPs-say.html

School hands out cigarettes to pupils as young as 11 to smoke in the playground during break times
The Elmete Central School in Roundhay, Leeds, is being investigated
Staff gave children between 11 and 16 permission to smoke at break
Cigarettes were confiscated at the beginning of the day then handed back
The school educates 'some of the city’s most challenging young people'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2464195/School-criticised-allowing-pupils-young-11-SMOKE-playground.html#ixzz2i3nftZBg

UK medical journals will no longer consider research funded by tobacco industry
Decision marks a U-turn for the BMJ, which published a tobacco industry-funded study in 2003

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/uk-medical-journals-will-no-longer-consider-research-funded-by-tobacco-industry-8882303.html

We all know smoking is bad for our health... but these photos PROVE it's bad for your looks! Compare the twin that smokes with the one that doesn't if you don't believe us
Researchers interviewed more than 70 pairs of identical twins where one was a regular smoker
The smokers showed considerably more signs of premature facial aging
The greatest impact was on the lower two-thirds of their face where smoking had caused greater wrinkling of the lips and sagging jowls


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480695/We-know-smoking-bad-health-pictures-PROVE-bad-looks-Compare-twin-smokes-doesnt-dont-believe-us.html#ixzz2jO4aSG2l

No fruit for ten years, a junk food diet and a 50-a-day cigarette habit... but David, 66, still insists he's as 'fit as a fiddle'
David Jeffries, 66, calls healthy food tasteless and he feels better than ever
He refuses to eat from his vegetable-obsessed son's allotment
Father-of-two puts 28-inch waist down to dancing in his living room


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512755/Pensioner-smokes-50-day-lives-junk-food-eaten-single-piece-fruit-decade-insists-hes-fit-fiddle.html#ixzz2leWx7nrB

Sometimes, Nanny really does know what's good for us
Rants about health fascists from the likes of Nigel Farage are not only wearing thin, they're wrong

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/07/nigel-farage-lovable-rogue-smoking-wearing-thin

Banning smoking in hospitals would be sadistic and wrong

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100247975/banning-smoking-in-hospitals-would-be-sadistic-and-wrong/

Cigarettes damage your brain... and smokers have double the risk of stroke death

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cigarettes-damage-your-brain-and-smokers-have-double-the-risk-of-stroke-death-9028630.html

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued guidance on improving public health by encouraging people to cut down on alcohol and sweet treats, quit smoking and exercise more

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10546553/Dont-tempt-friends-on-a-diet-with-cakes-says-health-watchdog.html

Does Vitamin E FUEL cancer in smokers? Supplements may speed growth of tumours

Swedish researchers made their findings in mice but believe the results are relevant to humans
University of Gothenburg researchers found cancer spread more quickly in mice with the early stages of lung cancer, that were given vitamin C
Antioxidants, such as vitamins A, C and E, are usually credited with protecting against a host of ills, including cancer


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2548212/Does-Vitamin-E-FUEL-cancer-smokers-Supplements-speed-growth-tumours.html#ixzz2s4nfz3Jx

Rollies AREN'T safer than other cigarettes - they're 'at least as hazardous' as any other type, doctor warns

That rollies are more natural and healthier than other cigarettes is a myth
Up to 40 per cent of rollie smokers think their habit is less dangerous
But rollies 'contain higher concentrations of additives than other cigarettes'
Some of these are linked to cancer and respiratory problems, expert warns


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2558685/Rollies-ARENT-safer-cigarettes-hazardous-type.html#ixzz2tIR0bfnp

Peterborough referral unit allows pupils to smoke http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-26480334

Third hand smoke - the sticky brown residue on smokers' walls and furniture - could be even MORE dangerous for children than passive smoking, warn experts
Second-hand smoke reacts with indoor pollutants to create substance
'Noxious residue' sticks to items in the home, including children's toys
When ingested substance sticks to DNA in a way which can lead to cancer
Particularly dangerous for children - who are more vulnerable to its effects as they are small and at a developmental stage
Discovered in research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2582248/Third-hand-smoke-sticky-brown-residue-smokers-walls-furniture-MORE-dangerous-children-passive-smoking-warn-experts.html#ixzz2wJDNQ7l9

Men who smoke regularly before their teens have fatter sons
These men have sons who carry an extra five to 10kg of fat on average
The same does not apply to the sons of men who started smoking later
It suggests boys are particularly sensitive to environment before puberty


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2595129/Men-smoke-regularly-age-11-fatter-sons-new-research-shows.html#ixzz2xonyf654

Cancer risk for teens who are too girly or too macho - as they're more likely to use sunbeds or smoke, researchers warn

'Girly' females more likely to use sunbeds and less likely to exercise
Boys who want to be seen as more 'manly' more likely to smoke
Study the first to look at link between gender constructs and cancer


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2605490/Cancer-risk-girly-macho-teens-researchers-warn.html#ixzz2z2Nqguvd

Smoking and breast cancer gene combine 'to raise risk' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27634006

Smoking damages hearing, too, even for passive smokers

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/smoking-damages-hearing-too-even-for-passive-smokers-9509276.html

Liver cancer and malignant melanoma rates rise sharply in England
Researchers warn that cancers are strongly linked to lifestyle choices, such as smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/20/liver-cancer-skin-melanoma-sharp-increase

How old is your body? New life expectancy calculator reveals how likely a healthy 75-year-old is to outlive someone who drinks and smokes by ten years
Groundbreaking 'health calculator' chart created by scientists at University of Zurich in Switzerland
They studied 17,000 people for health indicators including alcohol intake, smoking, exercise and diet
The study revealed that the unhealthiest 75-year-olds had just a 35% chance of living another decade
The findings also showed a healthy 75-year-old can have a longer life expectancy than an unhealthy 65-year-old


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2685628/How-old-body-New-life-expectancy-calculator-reveals-healthy-75-year-old-outlive-person-65-drinks-smokes.html#ixzz36ybGYWA0