Tobacco Companies

The Government's Latest Anti-Smoking Idea

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 04.01.2012

WASHINGTON -- Tobacco companies will be required to report the levels of dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, chew and other products under the la...

Obama Administration Appeals Cigarette Pack Ruling

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.29.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is appealing a judge's order blocking a requirement that tobacco companies put graphic images warning about the...

Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press)-- Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette lab...

The Billion-Dollar Smoking Problem In China

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing milli...

Tobacco Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama signed a law expanding children's health insurance this spring, he slapped tobacco companies with huge ...

The Irony in the Tobacco Companies Suing So That They Can Tell the "Truth"

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Judge H. Lee Sarokin

If history is any teacher, I can think of no industry more deserving of scrutiny and strict government regulation, consistent with their free speech rights, than the tobacco industry.

States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Stanton Peele

Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.

Supreme Court Opens Floodgates For New Cigarette Lawsuits

New York Times | DAVID STOUT | Posted 05.25.2011

Tobacco companies suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court on Monday when the justices ruled that the companies can be sued by smokers who contend they ...

FTC Tosses Guidance, "Will Not Be A Smokescreen For Tobacco Companies"

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the F...

Cigarette Scientists: "Cigarettes Cure Lung Cancer"

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.25.2011

An October 2006 lung cancer study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" was discovered to have been funded by a cigarette company, the "N...