Topic: Smoking
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Car Exhaust Hurts Children as Much as Second-Hand Smoke
European researchers believe 14 percent of chronic childhood asthma can be blamed on living near busy roads.
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It's Lonely Trying to Convince Chinese Hospitals to Go Smoke Free
Dr. Dan Xiao battles attitudes toward tobacco that more closely resemble the U.S. of the 1940s or '50s.
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Why St. Louis May Not Be Able to Stem its Asthma Epidemic
The city has one of the highest rates in the country, and efforts to cut smokers out just aren't working.
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What Smoking Bans Reveal About a Country's Economy
Rising cigarette sales used to be a sign that poor countries were growing. Now declining rates seem to be the marker of prosperity.
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Even the Smell of Cigarettes Changes How We Use Public Spaces
Smokers and the battle for the outdoors.
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Charts
In New York, Low-Income Smokers Spend 25 Percent of Their Money on Cigarettes
And they paid nearly 40 percent of the state's cigarette tax revenue.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: No Sex In a British Graveyard
Also, Atlanta outlaws smoking in public parks and a Massachusetts town stops feeding the bears (after one licks a human).
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Democracy in America
This Week In Bans: Alabama Chokes on 'Dirty Bastard' Beer
Also outlawed around the world: "gay cure" ads in London, discrimination on the basis of sexuality in Indiana, South Carolina yarn bombing.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Park Slope Parents Decry 'Tempting' Ice Cream
Also, Tampa is going to ban water pistols (but not real guns) from the 2012 Republican National Convention, and more.
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Rankings
America's Healthiest Metros
In the spirit of the New Year, a look at how U.S. cities stack up on measures like obesity and smoking
