Fed up with seeing cigarette butts on the streets, Sydney, Australia has put together a "Butt Force" or "Butt Busters" to clean-up the problem. Reuters reports the team of 30 plain-clothed rangers will patrol the city's streets in an effort to crackdown on litter.

A building known as "the cigarette lighter" catches fire in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana. Reuters reports flames and smoke were coming out of the 38-story building, which is the tallest in the country.

A hospital patient being treated with a flammable gel for a skin condition dies after catching fire as he lit a cigarette. According to the BBC, the 60-year-old was smoking on a fire escape at Doncaster Royal Infirmary on Monday.

Pilots diverted a United Airlines flight traveling from Orlando, Florida to Washington, D. C. , after a passenger lit a cigarette and urinated in the aisle. He's been identified as Mark McGovern. A United Airlines spokeswoman says flight attendants noticed McGovern appeared drunk not long after the plane left Orlando.

Hookah smoking, the latest alternative habit to cigarette smoking, is found to be more harmful users' health then originally thought. A new study in the November issue of the Journal of Periodontology finds hookah smoking is just as bad, and in some cases worse, than cigarette smoking for users' teeth.