EDMONTON, Alberta, May 12 (UPI) -- Alberta lawmakers introduced legislation positioning the province to recover billions of dollars in smoking-related health costs from tobacco companies.
ATHENS, Greece, April 29 (UPI) -- Greece's health minister said the government launched a promotion campaign to help introduce restrictions on smoking in public places as of July 1.
NASHVILLE, April 28 (UPI) -- Tennessee state employees will start seeing a $600 yearly surcharge on their health insurance premiums if they continue to smoke, officials say.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The fact that a pack of cigarettes will soon cost more than $10 in New York could push some people quit smoking, a health official says.
LONDON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Poor diets cost Britain's National Health Service $10.4 billion a year -- four times the cost of smoking, Oxford University researchers say.
TORONTO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Canada's provinces now can sue tobacco manufacturers to recover billions of dollars in smoking-related health costs.
SYDNEY, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- An Australian study of smoking in the Asia Pacific region finds that Asians are as likely as Europeans to suffer smoking-related health problems.
HAVANNA, Cuba, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- World renowned for its quality cigars, Cuba has announced its will soon ban smoking in some public areas, the BBC reported Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona Thursday released a report indicating smoking causes diseases in nearly every human organ.
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 1 (UPI) -- Senior officials from 171 countries agreed early Saturday on a historic draft global health treaty to stem deaths from smoking related diseases. The World Healt
