Denmark’s government says it should be more expensive to buy cigarettes in the Scandinavian country and has proposed raising the price of a packet to 50 kroner (6.70 euros).
Denmark’s Liberal party says it will try to gather a parliamentary majority in support of raising the price of a packet of cigarettes to 60 kroner (8 euros), should the government not take the step itself.
A municipality in Copenhagen has banned all employees from smoking during working hours -- even if they are on an unpaid lunch break, in their own clothes and off council property.
Checks on sales of tobacco products to minors will become the mandate of a government agency after the government said control had not been good enough.
Politicians in the Jutland city of Randers are eyeing a far-reaching smoking ban as part of its plan to drastically cut down the number of smokers over the next decade.
Danish women have the lowest life expectancy in western Europe and Danish men are also near the bottom, a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday.
In the first lawsuit of its kind in Denmark, the Supreme Court rules against a long-term smoker's claims that the tobacco industry should be held accountable for his health problems.
Less than four percent of Danes aged 16-24 report using hard drugs like cocaine, amphetamines and ecstasy. Hard drugs are no longer cool or accepted among young people, a drug researcher said.
The Danish government was repeatedly warned to stop the sale of snus and after its last attempt failed to pass in parliament, the EU Commission has taken legal action.
