Hong Kong welcomed a near-blanket ban on smoking Monday, although not all residents in the Chinese territory were happy about losing their right to light up in public.

The Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health recently revealed that 3 per cent of primary school pupils and 8 per cent of secondary school students polled in 2022 and 2023 had tried smoking products.

Smoking rates in Hong Kong were at 9.5% in 2021, ... Just 9.5% of people in Hong Kong still smoked in 2021, according to a 2022 government health and community press release.

Connie Hong, a waitress at a Chinese-restaurant in downtown Wan Chai where smoking used to be allowed, said she and her colleagues started putting up "no-smoking" signs and throwing away ashtrays ...

Hong Kong’s ban on the import and sale of alternative smoking products, including vaping and heat-not-burn products, took effect on April 30 – a month before World No Tobacco Day on May 31.

Make Hong Kong a smoking-free territory to improve people's health Updated: 2016-06-06 07:59 By Paul Surtees(HK Edition) ...

Pharmacies in Hong Kong will receive more than 5,000 nicotine patch trial kits next month to freely distribute to local smokers looking to quit as part of a government drive marking World No ...

The Hong Kong government’s proposed laws to curb smoking, including banning the possession of e-cigarettes in public, will have no impact on tourism, a legislator has said. David Lam ...

It seemed fitting that in the 1980s the world’s biggest neon sign, for Marlboro cigarettes, was in Hong Kong. Some of the neon was in English, some in Arabic, some in Japanese.