Before Covid, the number of people smoking overall was falling 5.2 per cent per year, but since 2020, the rate of decrease has slowed to just 0.3 per cent. The thing that unites all of these ...

Meanwhile, viral Instagram accounts like @cigfluencers are raising a glass to “HOT PEOPLE keeping the art of SMOKING & BEING ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They’re having the odd cigarette for the pleasure of it, or to look cool, but not really seriously smoking.

According to Statistics Canada, just over 18 per cent of Halton residents identify themselves as smokers.

And she's not alone, the habit, which has been widely socially shunned since the 2007 smoking ban, is now au fait again - at least in celebrity circles. Dua Lipa and Sabrina Carpenter are among ...

Anti-smoking lobbyists have always clung to the hopeless embarrassment that is the slogan "Smoking is not cool." It has probably tempted young people to smoke because of this recondite logic.

Vaping may pose less of a health risk compared to smoking, but does that mean it's safe? Here's what medical experts say.

Mr. Gzowski sought professional help to stop smoking, which he did in 2000. It was not enough to save him from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, the slow death of the lungs brought on by the ...

Uh oh, smoking is cool again. Shouldn't people know better by now? "Risk of lung cancer decreases drastically if you quit smoking," says Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., co-director of the Medical University of ...