Around 6.0 million people aged 18 years and over (11.9%) smoked cigarettes in the UK in 2023; this is the lowest proportion of current smokers since records began in 2011, based on our estimates from ...

Health insurers are allowed to charge smokers more in monthly premiums than what they charge people who don't use tobacco. With the growing body of medical evidence linking alcohol to cancer and ...

Both studies reveal that lifelong smokers lose roughly 10 years of life compared to nonsmokers. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also states that smokers lose a decade on ...

In many English-speaking countries, the song Auld Lang Syne is associated with farewelling the past year. The lyrics originally formed a poem written in Scots, an early Scottish language or ...

A team of behavioral scientists at University College London has found that for long-term smokers, just one cigarette reduces lifespan by approximately 20 minutes. They have published an editorial ...

Haniff, a self-described “hardcore smoker,” wants his law firm to remain a designated smoking area, asserting that he should have the right to smoke in his own office as long as it doesn’t affect ...

MILAN — Smokers in Italy’s financial and fashion capital of Milan risk being fined for lighting up on city streets or crowded public areas, after the country’s toughest ban comes into effect ...

As the clock strikes midnight and the world ushers in 2025, revelers around the globe will sing "Auld Lang Syne," a song about "old acquaintance be forgot" and, well, other lyrics people may not ...

The beloved New Year's Eve anthem "Auld Lang Syne" has its roots in Scottish tradition, with its most famous version penned by the renowned Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788. However, Burns didn ...