Osaka has implemented a citywide ban on outdoor smoking, effective Jan. 27. The move, which prohibits smoking in streets, parks and other open public spaces, marks the first of its kind among ...

The music venues and fetish bars of Osaka’s Dotonbori district form a community for Japanese punks and expats.

Smoking in Iowa casinos could become a thing of the past under a bill advancing through the Iowa House that would remove one of the few exceptions to the state's Smokefree Air Act.

Just like bars and restaurants in the state, smoking would be prohibited inside Iowa casinos under legislation that took a ...

New research published in Health Economics indicates that a national prohibition of menthol cigarettes in the United States ...

Roger James, a Spokane member of the Washington State Board of Health, was in trouble for blowing smoke – metaphorically – in ...

In recent years, vaping has become popular as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. Flavored electronic cigarettes—known ...

The official said the growing health consciousness and declining smoking rates among the public are the primary reasons for the complete ban on smoking in Shinkansen trains. “Because we are ...

Muskegon city commissioners will vote on an updated rule proposing a ban on smoking and vaping at all parks in the city. Currently, smoking is banned at some parks, but not all. It's a change not ...

Smoking in the open is to be banned where it affects bystanders, ministers said yesterday. The forthcoming ban on lighting up in public places has been extended to areas where there is an ...

Regulators said they would suspend the app until they could be sure it complied with the country’s data protection laws. By Meaghan Tobin and Jin Yu Young Meaghan Tobin reported from Taipei ...

MADRID (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday offered an explanation for why top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner received a much shorter doping ban than the six-year suspension it ...