Under attack on all sides, with a once almost universally acceptable habit making us into social outcasts, the last thing smokers need is more depressing news. Yet that is literally what is coming out of new research into smoking by Australian researchers. The scientists followed a group of several hundred sheilas (why not men, I [...]

Kurt Cobain’s ashes are to be smoked in a joint in a music concert. At least, these are the claims of one crazy German artist. Natascha Stellmach claims to have to acquired the ashes of Kurt Cobain, which, accordingly to the highly reliable News of the World, were reported to have been stolen from Courtney [...]

Who said that suicide by smoking was slow? One man nearly did things a lot of quicker when he managed to blow up himself and the car he was using by lighting a cigarette. Ironically, he had been intending to kill himself. Having driven himself to a beauty spot, he rigged up a canister of [...]

The Linux operating system has helped one woman to quit smoking, according to IT Wire. But it wasn’t down to a sophisticated computer cessation programme, but rather to a few games of solitaire. The woman, who is not named in the story, found the programme AisleRiot Solitaire, a package of 82 distinct solitaire games. She [...]

15.3 million Chinese are predicted to die from lung cancer over the next 25 years, with a further 53.3 million Chinese dying from chronic respiratory illness, according to a story in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal. More than half of Chinese men smoke, and the situation is exacerbrated by the use of solid fuels [...]

In a bizarre but tragic story reported by Fox News today, a couple have been beaten to death in an attack aimed at getting them to stop smoking. Malaysian Mohamed Ibrahim Kader Mydin, whose wife was suffering from asthma and a liver complain, had indeed asked his family to help him kick the habit, but [...]