After several Canadian provinces had banned smoking inside a car with someone below 18 years old inside, Parliament Hill is set to implement by May 31 a ban on cigarette displays.

The Smoke Free Ontario Act prohibits display of tobacco products in convenience stores. Instead, store clerks would present cigarette buyers a binder with only photos of tobacco products to help consumers make their choice

A new U.S. study suggests that babies of women who use drugs, alcohol or tobacco during pregnancy may have altered brain structures that continue into early adolescence.

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Boston Medical Center used MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans to study the brains of 35 children, average age 12, who were exposed to the substances while in the womb

Cigarette companies may have to design new packets to enter the rich oil exporting Arab countries.

According to a proposal which the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries are in the process of finalizing, all cigarette packets must have 50 per cent of the packaging indicating statutory health warning with a mandatory font set to 14 on the surface

A recent study revealed that Canadian teenagers spend too much time in front of a screen, whether it be a computer screen, a television screen, or a video game screen. The statistics for it skyrocket in the case of kids belonging to lower-income households.

Experts drew their findings from an experiment that studied 1,293 students from the 7th grade, analyzed for five years. The subjects were asked to fill out surveys four times throughout the entire period, with the questions mostly centering on tobacco dependence

While several Canadian provinces had recently passed legislation to prohibit smoking inside cars with children, the federal government had surreptitiously instructed the Canada Border Services Agency to permit Canadian children to bring imported cigarettes and other tobacco products into the country.

The Sun Media quoted a portion of the CBSA memorandum released in late 2007 that, "According to a legal opinion recently obtained by headquarters, federal and provincial laws on tobacco have no provisions to prevent the importation of tobacco products