A four-year-old boy is in rehab in Taiwan after he became addicted to smoking his father's cigars.
The father, of Gaoxiong city, started taking his sons, aged nine and four, to a rehabilitation centre after catching them stealing his cigarettes and cigars.
"The answer was what I had expected, but the hardest to accept," he told China Times.
The boys admitted stealing and said they did it because they thought their father looked "cool" when he smoked.
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Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country's 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.
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An anti-nicotine vaccine will be tested on 400 people in the Nordic countries over the next year aimed at helping smokers kick the habit, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said on Monday.
People taking part in the study -- heavy smokers who would like to quit -- would be given counselling before they stop smoking and would be given a drug to help them quit.
They will then receive one injection a month for four months. Half of the participants will be given the vaccine and the other half a placebo.
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