LiLo using ‘e-cigarette’ to curb nicotine addiction

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 17:48

Lindsay Lohan, who is under house arrest, is reportedly attempting to quit her smoking habit as she was snapped with an electronic cigarette.

Electronic cigarette to usher in social smoke networking

Last Updated: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 19:14

E-cigarettes vibrate and flash a blue light when they are within 50 feet of other e-smokers.

Sheen to launch e-cigarette business

Last Updated: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 15:29

Sheen has partnered in a new US line of electronic cigarettes.

Australia unveils tough new cigarette pack rules

Last Updated: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 13:46

Australia would be first country to mandate plain packaging of cigarettes.

Britain plans no-brand cigarette packs

Last Updated: Monday, March 7, 2011, 14:07

Cigarettes in Britain will be sold in plain packets with no colour, logos.

Anti-tobacco group fumes over Aishwarya`s cigarette act

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 15:46

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who will be seen lighting up in her forthcoming release "Guzaarish", has set the anti-tobacco lobby aflame with anger.

Smokers nabbed as Saudi implements airport cigarette ban

Last Updated: Sunday, November 7, 2010, 20:55

Sixteen smokers were nabbed at Jeddah`s international airport early as Saudi Arabia started to implement a smoking ban, an airport official said.

Chinese city offering money to pick up cigarette butts

Last Updated: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 20:58

A Chinese city has launched an unique initiative to encourage residents to keep the streets clean by paying those who pick up discarded cigarette butts.

Will never endorse cigarette brand, Fair & Lovely: Abhay Deol

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 10:57

Abhay Deol, who is quite choosy about the kind of brands he endorses, revealed that he would never endorse a cigarette brand or the fairness cream Fair and Lovely. "I will never endorse a cigarette brand because that`s something very bad for health. Also I will never endorse Fair & Lovely because it makes the generation believe that you are nice and successful only if you are fair," said Abhay.

School textbook depicts Jesus with cigarette and beer

Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 21:55

A Delhi-based publisher has landed in a controversy after some textbooks published by it carried a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer can on the other.