An academic review of the smoking ban commissioned by the Department of Health (DoH) earlier this year has been criticised as “narrow and selective” by Imperial Tobacco.

On the BBC Radio Scotland phone-in, presenter Kaye Adams asks if we should get tougher on passive smoking. Programme features Simon Clark, director of Forest.

Delegates at the British Medical Association's annual conference have called for a ban on smoking in cars.

A ten minute rule bill to ban adults from smoking in private vehicles where children are present has been criticised by Conservative MP Philip Davies.

The National Federation of Retail Newsagents is demanding a formal investigation into the conduct of the public health minister in charge of the tobacco display ban.

Traditional inner city pubs have suffered the most since the introduction of smoking bans in Scotland, England and Wales, a new report has found.

The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal over legislation to ban sales of tobacco from vending machines in the UK.