Cigarette warning: Two thirds of people who try one become full time smokers

Scientists pooled data from previous studies involving more than 215,000 people from across the world to show an estimated 70 per cent progressed to daily smoking after taking their first puff. Professor Peter Hajek, of Queen Mary University, London, said: “This is the first time the remarkable hold cigarettes can establish after a single experience […]

Smoking crackdown as Government announces plans to SLASH number of smokers to 12 per cent

The figures were revealed as part of the tobacco control plan, a paper which was due to be published last summer and has just been released. The plan also targets a reduction in the number of 15-year-olds who regularly smoke, from eight per cent to three per cent or lower, as well as a fall […]

‘Light’ cigarettes make smokers more vulnerable to most common lung cancer

Researchers investigated why rates of adenocarcinoma, a cancer that occurs deep in the lungs, had increased over the last 50 years. During same period, the number of people developing other forms of lung cancer had fallen in relation to more smokers quitting tobacco. The results confirmed what many experts had long suspected. A “clear relationship” […]