Business / Health
Monocolumn
Sunday 6 June
Why giving up is hard to do
Japanese cigarette taxes go up in October, and I wish I could gloat.
- 33 results for tobacco
Affairs / Transport
Briefing Asia
Life's is a long drag for Asian men, Japan's underground police plan, and China helps Laos get on the right track.
Business / Aviation
Briefing business
Why fixing planes is better than flying them, why investors dig the student life and posh pawn gets the pulses racing in the US.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 9 February
A real fag: Japan’s anti-smoking campaign
It says a lot about a country when the top health official’s declaration of war against smoking stirs a backlash.
Business / Health
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 January
Health shouldn’t be a drag
Smoking is an issue we're all aware of but are we being told enough about alternatives?
Business / Health
Monocolumn
Thursday 1 September
Cigarette branding up in smoke
Smokers looking to buy a pack of Marlboro Lights in Sydney or Winfield Blues in Perth will soon have a hard time telling the difference at the cash register.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Motorbike gangs in Melbourne, kicking the habit in Australia and an interview with Brisbane's mayor.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 28 April
The smoking ban
The hookahs have been packed away and cigarettes stubbed out. Damascus, like Paris and New York, now has a smoking ban.
Affairs / Society
Americas Briefing
Cricket in the US, a possible Obama challenger, and Argentina's cash crisis
Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 3 June
Weekend Agenda 4/5 June
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, a photography festival on the Channel Islands, and an impressive new short storyteller with ten tales on the subject…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Wednesday 14 July
Giving up a criminal habit
There are few pleasures to be had behind bars, but smoking has always been one of them – a fixture of prison life as ubiquitous as locked doors and bare walls.
Business / Industry
Site seeing
Once a nondescript office area with little in the way of shops or restaurants, Marunouchi in Tokyo is undergoing the latest stages of a 20-year transformation into a vibrant retail and financial centre. The next phase will…
Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
A NATO shipping deal looks set to provide some welcome good news in Latvia, how a think tank is shaking up German politics, and France's pioneering stance on transsexuality.
Affairs / Politics
Europe briefing
Russians promise to stub out the smoking habit, getting high in Stockholm, and bridging a great divide in Germany.
Affairs / Society
Europe Briefing
An eye on Serbia's parliamentary election, the launch of Bristol's own currency, and Q&As with Sweden's Minister of Gender Equality and the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Oslo.
Edits / Travel
Expo 55: Valparaiso
After spending the late 20th century becalmed in quiet isolation, Chile’s second city is opening up to the rest of the world. But will World Heritage status, tourism and redevelopment corrupt the port’s cheerful bohemian…
Business / Food & Drink
Mussel men
For years Danish fishermen have dredged the country’s waters for mussels to be frozen or canned. But now environmentally aware pioneers are growing the molluscs on lines and selling their fresh produce to people willing…
Edits / Property
Kungsholmen
Traditionally the favourite of academics and young families, Kungsholmen runs as a small town within Stockholm. For decades it’s been a neighbourhood waiting to be discovered, but now the young creatives and entrepreneurs…
Business / Politics
Business Briefing
American cigars, Japanese micro sites and innovative Irish forest technology
Business / Business Hubs
From coal to cool
Thanks to its excellent universities, international transport links and super bright, skilled workforce, this former mining city in Germany’s Ruhr valley has been transformed into a hive for hi-tech firms.