VietNamNet Bridge – Smoking now claims over 100 lives in Vietnam every day and the number is expected to nearly double in 2030.

 France has seen a sharp fall in the number of people smoking daily, with one million fewer lighting up from 2016-2017, a survey suggests.

 Smokers need to quit cigarettes rather than cut back on them to significantly lower their risk of heart disease and stroke, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was a Sunday afternoon in a café by Hoan Kiem Lake in Ha Noi. A young man was lighting up a cigarette while holding an infant, possibly his son or daughter, with his other hand. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A report on the prevalence of tobacco smoking published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2015 indicated that 47.1 per cent of Vietnamese adults (aged 15 and above) were smokers.

 A jury in St. Louis, Missouri on Thursday rejected a request for about $1.8 billion in damages against Philip Morris USA in a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company misled smokers about the health risks of "light" cigarettes.

 The mystery of why some people appear to have healthy lungs despite a lifetime of smoking has been explained by UK scientists.

A blood test could help people choose a stop-smoking strategy that would give them the best chance of quitting, research in the Lancet suggests.

 A study of smokers in Australia suggests there is "no evidence" that the introduction of 'plain' cigarette packaging has changed the way people buy cigarettes.

 Lung cancer rates among British women have risen by 73 percent over the last 40 years, while the figures in men have fallen by nearly half, cancer research authorities said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Readers share with Viet Nam News their opinions on pictures depicting the consequences of smoking being added to cigarette packets sold in Viet Nam for almost six months.