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While the government is trying out various methods, including a hefty tax levy to make smokers give up smoking or cough up more, tobacco lovers are turning to cheaper options to 'puff away their blues'. Trends ...

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The Commander of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth announced today that the hospital and the base it occupies will go virtually tobacco-free in 2008.

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THE notorious Dutch "coffee shop" faces a unique conundrum under a new public smoking ban: its patrons can still light up their cannabis joints but no longer if blended with tobacco.

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SHIA LaBeouf set off smoke alarms in a US museum when he sneakily lit a cigarette in the bathroom.

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The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a government ban on flavoured cigarillos after a national youth smoking survey found a high proportion of teens have at least experimented with the product.

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Philip Morris USA says it has ended test markets of Marlboro cigarettes that use a high-technology filter to potentially reduce the risk of smoking.

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Smoking outside does not stop children being exposed to high levels of dangerous tobacco chemicals, Australian research shows.

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London, June 22 : A new study, led by experts at Glasgow University, has revealed that smoking causes hundreds of thousands more deaths each year than previously thought.

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They must sing missing lines after the band stops playing and the words disappear.

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