China’s ‘Smoking Brother’ disqualified, banned for habit during race

A Chinese marathon runner who went viral in 2022 after being photographed smoking during a race was disqualified for his habit under the Chi...

Hong Kongers urged by health chief to stare at smokers to discourage them

“When members of the public see people smoking in non-smoking areas, even if no law enforcement officers can show up immediately, we c...

Japanese man fined $11,000 for smoking more than 4,500 times on the job

A Japanese civil servant was fined around 1.44 million yen (approximately $10,900) for smoking on the job more than 4,500 times in over 14 y...

Chinese uncle chain-smokes during 26-mile marathon, beats his own record

A 50-year-old Chinese man recently finished a 42-kilometer (approximately 26-mile) marathon in 3.5 hours while smoking cigarettes. The run...

Orangutan caught puffing on cigarette thrown into enclosure by visitor at Saigon Zoo

A male orangutan at Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Ho Chi Minh City was captured on video puffing a cigarette a visitor threw into its...

Chinese zoo sparks outrage for forcing cigarette on baby monkey for ‘anti-smoking campaign’

A Chinese zoo has deleted a viral video of a baby monkey smoking a cigarette after facing backlash from social media users. “Anti-smoking ca...

Chinese Doctors Given Chain Smoker’s Blackened Lungs for Organ Transplant

A surgeon from China rejected a pair of donated blackened lungs that came from a heavy-smoker. Chen Jingyu, a lung transplant surgeon from W...

Man Gets Sprayed with Fire Extinguisher After Ignoring Gas Station’s Request to Stop Smoking Cigarette

A man who ignored a warning to stop smoking was met with the shock of his life when a gas station worker literally blasted a fire extinguish...

Why Korean Americans Smoke Socially More Than Other Asians

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by the California Department of Public Health. Smoking cigarettes is huge in Asia. ...

Father Quits Smoking After First Child, Saves $2,000 to Take Family on a Vacation

A Taiwanese father is winning the hearts of many people online when he voluntarily quit smoking cigarettes after his first child was born. T...

Why Asian Culture May Be Promoting Social Smoking

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by TobaccoFreeCA. Smoking is becoming a big problem for Asian Americans. All the leading causes of dea...

15 Things Asian American Kids Could Never Get Away With

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by TobaccoFreeCA. For Asian American kids, perhaps nothing is more relatable than the things you got i...

86% of Filipino Americans Who Vape Started Because of Friends

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by the California Department of Public Health. California is home to two growing trends: Asian A...

Woman With Baby Calls Police on Black Man Smoking in Front of ‘No Smoking’ Sign

A video of an Asian woman calling the police to report a Black man who smoked in a questionably lawful area is out on social media. Atlanta ...

Indonesian Toddler Smokes 40 Cigarettes a Day and His Parents Can’t Say No to Him

A 2-year-old boy in Indonesia has picked up the dangerous habit of smoking cigarettes, only his parents won’t stop him. The boy, ident...

Hayao Miyazaki Admits He Smoked Around Friend Who Died of Lung Cancer During Eulogy

Many friends and colleagues have gathered to say their farewells to one of the legends in the Japanese anime industry, Isao Takahata, with h...

Chinese Passengers Angrily Confront Foreigner Smoking a Cigarette in Beijing Train

A video showing a foreign man smoking on the Beijing Metro Line 2 subway and being confronted by Chinese passengers is going viral on Chines...

China Now Sells Cigarettes Packed With ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine’

Packs of cigarettes containing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are making their way to Beijing’s markets, luring customers to puff their ...

Japanese Company Rewards Non-Smoking Employees With Six Paid Holidays Each Year

Japanese marketing company Piala Inc. is giving their non-smoking employees six paid leave as part of a reward system that started in Septem...

Smoking Will Kill Over 200 Million People in China By 2099, Report Says

Smoking tobacco will claim the lives of 200 million people in China by the end of this century, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unit...

China to Ban Smoking in Public By the End of the Year

Smokers in China should find a new habit in 2017 as the country is set to implement a stricter nationwide cigarette smoking ban by the year’...

Chinese Student Goes to Extreme Lengths to Avoid Secondhand Smoke From Roommates

One Chinese university student found a way to avoid having to breathe secondhand smoke produced by his roommates. His improvised breathing d...

Vaping Alters Your Immune System Genes Six Times More Than Regular Smoking, Study Finds

In a new study on vaping, scientists discovered that the habit alters the immune system even more than regular cigarette smoking. E-cigarett...

Scientists Just Discovered the Damage That One Hookah Session Does to the Body

While many might really enjoy believing that hookah is much better than smoking cigarettes because it’s water filtered, science says otherwi...

Science Discovers a Chemical in E-Cigarettes Known to Cause ‘Popcorn Lung’

A new Harvard study on e-cigarettes has found that brand-name liquid refills for the device contain three harmful chemical flavorings, some ...

Uneducated People Make Up the Majority of Smokers in the U.S.

Fewer U.S. adults smoke cigarettes today than ever before in almost two decades, according to statistics released Thursday by the Centers fo...