India is set to win the war against tobacco by reintroducing a new ban on smoking in public places four years after an initial campaign failed to take off.

The prohibition was made possible after the Indian Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal against the ban by cigarette firms and a hotel lobby group

- A new study has found that children who start drinking alcoholic beverages early in life are more likely to continue drinking through their adulthood.

The Times of London reported that the study shows that children and teens who drink alcohol, even in small doses at dinner time, as is done in some European families, tend to be fonder of drinking as adults, and the idea that allowing kids to drink will make them more responsible drinkers is not the reality. According to the study, it is just more likely to make them drinkers for life

A study which came out in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that some popular medicines used as initial therapy for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may hike the risk of heart attacks, strokes and death from heart ailments.

COPD, the fourth leading cause of morbidity in the U.S., refers to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, which are incurable lung diseases traced to a variety of causes, including cigarette smoking

To help Germany's millions of smokers quit the habit, the country's Federal Medical Society proposed Tuesday to reclassify tobacco addiction as an ailment.

According to German physicians, the idea behind the reclassification is to add pressure on nicotine addicts by placing a sick label to spur them to seek medical assistance

Sulforaphane, an antioxidant compound in broccoli may limit the damage which leads to serious lung disease, research suggests.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often caused by smoking and is the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States, affecting more than 16 million people. There is no cure for this deadly disease, and current drugs do not slow its progression