tobacco

A bill increasing the value-added tax imposed on tobacco products, including cigarettes and syrupy tobacco mix “shisha maassel”, has been approved…

The US government announced Thursday it was banning most flavored e-cigarettes in a bid to curb the rising tide of…

Electronic cigarettes are “undoubtedly harmful” and should be regulated, the WHO said Friday as it warned against the use of…

First ladies attending the African Union summit in Niger on Saturday called for a rise in taxes for cancer-causing products…

Egypt’s largest cigarette manufacturer, the Eastern Tobacco Company, said on Thursday that a price hike on cigarettes produced by Egyptian-owned…

In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a…

Eastern Tobacco Company increased the prices of 3 categories of cigarettes from an added 50 piasters up to LE2.25, as…

The first solid evidence that smoking causes cancer came in the 1950s, followed decades later by revelations that "second-hand" smoke…

The leadership of a World Health Organization (WHO) treaty aimed at controlling tobacco could be about to get tougher with…

Close to half of US middle and high school students who never used tobacco themselves were exposed to secondhand smoke…