More than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years from lung disease, a new study confirms. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health say the deaths would be attributed to smoking habits and the common practice of burning coal and wood for cooking and heating.

The study, which is published online on Saturday by the British journal The Lancet looked at a 30-year period, spanning the last five and the next 25. More than half of Chinese men population smoke and more than 70 percent of Chinese households use solid fuels that are a major source of indoor air pollution, the study says

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

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

Boston City has slated a public hearing on the ban on cigarette sales at drug stores and college campuses on Oct. 8, 5 to 7 p.m. The hearing will be at the Carter Auditorium at Northampton Square Complex.

Aside from oral arguments, the Boston Public Health Commission, which organized the hearing, will also receive written comments on the rules which could be sent by post or email

A proposal to prohibit the sale of tobacco products in campuses and drugstores have high chances of being approved in Boston.

If the legislation is signed into law Thursday, the capital city of Massachusetts would have one of the toughest tobacco control rules in the U.S. San Francisco, though, is one step ahead as it will implement later this month then ban on sale of tobacco products in pharmacies