Another nail in the coffin for smokers?

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain, American writer and humourist The statistics of tobacco-related deaths worldwide are shocking. It could be said to be an unrecognised pandemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide. More […]

Smoking ban can curb cancer deaths, says SCAN

KUCHING: A non-governmental organisation has come out in support of the Health Ministry’s plan to ban the sale of cigarettes and all smoking-related products to those born after 2005. It said the ministry’s rationale that this could drastically reduce the number of cancer deaths in future had merit as globally 27 per cent of cancer […]