A recent study using national data highlights the strong association between smoking in childhood and increased COPD prevalence in adulthood, emphasizing the urgent need for prevention strategies ...

The majority of children who started smoking tobacco at age 10 years or in their later teens continued to smoke until their ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia raised the minimum age limit for purchasing cigarettes to 21 from 18 as part of a series of changes to health regulations intended to curb the deadly habit in a country ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Smoking before age 18 years was reported by 70% of 28-year-old ever smokers. In addition to smoking before age ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The link between paternal smoking during puberty and epigenetic age acceleration in offspring differed by sex.

Legislators in Olympia are considering a bill to raise the age to buy tobacco in Washington from 18 to 21. The man behind the bill is state Rep. Paul Harris (R-Clark County). When explaining why the ...

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that would raise the legal smoking age statewide to 21, positioning it to become the first state in the country to do so. The bill, which ...

Young Californians will have to wait a little longer to light up. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed numerous bills related to tobacco use Wednesday, which will raise the smoking age in the state ...

The following is a release from the office of Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson: Washington has long been at the forefront of the fight to protect youth from the dangers of smoking.