A designated smoking area is seen in a part of the city where street smoking is banned, in the city of Osaka on Jan. 14, 2025. (Mainichi/Takuya Suzuki) OSAKA -- As this city prepares to host Expo ...

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has granted lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla leave to challenge a ban on smoking in private offices which came into force on Jan 1 this year. In a statement, Haniff said ...

(The Hill) — The Biden administration is poised to try to lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, an eleventh-hour ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship are linked to a 20% reduction in smoking prevalence and a 37% decrease in the risk of smoking uptake ...

DCHHS said the city's ordinance required entities to update their existing “No Smoking” signage to include a ban on electronic smoking devices. A one-year grace period has been provided for ...

A Hong Kong anti-smoking group has called for a total ban on flavoured cigarettes after a survey found nearly 90 per cent of young female smokers opted for the particularly addictive products.

Bans on tobacco advertising and promotion led to 20 per cent lower odds of people smoking and a 37 per cent reduced risk of people starting to smoke, according to a new meta-analysis that the ...

A smoking space is seen in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Only four of Tokyo's 23 wards ban street smoking of both traditional cigarettes and heated tobacco products and impose fines ...

The country, which has one of Europe’s highest smoking rates, is also resisting a wider push for outdoor bans. By Niki Kitsantonis Reporting from Athens Greeks smoke more than most other ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On Tuesday, the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium announced that — effective immediately — smoking is banned on zoo grounds. The decision was made “to provide a safer ...

It’s officially over. Smoking in bars and restaurants in Minneapolis, Bloomington, Minn., and Hennepin County is banned beginning today. Despite the failed efforts of a group of local bar and club ...

Smoking has now been banned in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s second largest city of Milan. The citywide ban goes into effect starting 1 January in the strictest ban to date on smoking in ...