All posts tagged "smoking"

  • Electronic Cigarettes-Regulations
    California lawmakers vote to raise smoking, vaping age to 21

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation’s most populous state on the brink of becoming only the...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • smoking, chinese tourists
    Chinese tourist problem goes up in smoke

    By The Korea Times Seoul staff Chinese visitors ignoring smoking bans in Seoul have become increasingly noticeable. The complaints follow an influx of tourists during the New Year holidays, known as Chunjie. The visitors, who have a...

    • Posted February 18, 2016
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  • (Korea Times file)
    US adult smoker rate drops to an all-time low of 17%

    The rate of adults who smoke cigarettes in the United States has dropped to 16.8 percent, the lowest in recorded history. According to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Sunday, numbers from last...

    • Posted November 16, 2015
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  • In this Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 photo, men smoke cigarettes outside of an office building in Beijing. Research published in the medical journal The Lancet says one in three of all the young men in China are likely to die from tobacco, but that the number can fall if the men quit smoking. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
    Studies say 1/3 of young men in China to die from smoking

    BEIJING (AP) — Research published in the medical journal The Lancet says one in three of all the young men in China are likely to die from tobacco, but that the number can fall if the men...

    • Posted October 8, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    S. Korea may require graphic anti-smoking photos on cigarette packs

    By Kim Rahn Tobacco makers here may have to print warning photos on cigarette packs from the latter half of next year. A National Assembly panel will today put the government’s plan to make it obligatory for...

    • Posted February 25, 2015
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