St. Mary's County Health Department will be holding a special summer session of its free 8-week smoking cessation program, Smoke Free for Life.

A combination of increased excise taxes, nationwide indoor smoking bans, and other measures would significantly lower the U.S. smoking rate, which now hovers at around 21 percent of the adult population.

Ending the Tobacco Problem: United States can eliminate tobacco use as a serious public health problem, but the main obstacle to achieving this goal has been a lack of political will, not a lack of proven solutions.

A significant body of research indicates that exposure to movie imagery of tobacco smoking by attractive movie stars is among the strongest factors that leads nonsmoking adolescents to try this highly addictive behavior.

On May 31, STATIC will celebrate World No Tobacco Day to raise awareness of the world's leading killer - tobacco.

Smokefree Housing Project announces the availability of two new resources to help landlords and tenants reduce secondhand smoke.

Municipal/County Smoke Free Task Force is praising the statewide smoking ban approved by Illinois state lawmakers.

More than half of New York City smokers tried to quit last year, but 80% of them relapsed within three months.

The recent announcement from the Motion Picture Association of America to "consider smoking" when rating movies does nothing to stop the proven impact that the depictions of smoking in movies has on the health of children and teenagers.

Incidence of smoking in US-made movies is influencing teenagers in countries far beyond American shores.

Nearly 27,000 Ontarians took up the Driven to Quit Challenge in March, giving up smoking for the month in the hopes of not only winning great prizes, but taking a big step towards kicking smoking for good.

Linking brief physician advice and follow-up with more intensive behavioral smoking treatment programs, would improve the impact of physician advice more dramatically, helping parents to quit smoking.

The American Heart Association will no longer hold conferences in cities without smoke-free workplace laws as part of an ongoing campaign to reduce cardiovascular diseases related to tobacco use.

There are close to one million adult smokers in the state of Arizona. On May 1st, they will have an added incentive to quit as Arizona implements a statewide smoking ban that prohibits indoor smoking in public places and will require a 20-foot smoke free zone around entrances to businesses.

Northern Ireland confirmed that the smoke-free legislation will be fully enforced from 6am Monday 30 April 2007.