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.

A state legislator is moving to outlaw the sale of nicotine pouches, despite the federal Food and Drug Administration’s ...

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.

A bipartisan group of senators in South Carolina introduced a bill this week that would ban smoking in the car with a child present. South Carolina Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Democrat, said it is ...

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 ...

Representatives for Iowa’s state-licensed commercial casinos argued revenues would drop by up to 30% with a smoking ban, as gamblers who smoke would go to tribal casinos in Iowa or surrounding ...

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