Even with a small amount of unburnt tobacco clinging to it, a single cigarette butt soaked for a day is enough to turn a liter of water a sickly yello...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
There's a killer at large in our communities linked to 1 out of 5 deaths. The killer is tobacco, the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps...
LA Times | Mark Milian | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
With so many places around the world instituting smoking regulations, increasing taxes and, quite literally, kicking smokers to the curb, it's getting...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The health insurance industry does not make obscenely huge profits by selling health insurance that keeps us healthy, but by selling us the idea that health insurance keeps us healthy.
The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The Washington Examiner reports Wednesday that lobbyists from the Altria Group, owner of tobacco company Philip Morris, are the principal authors of n...
Mother Jones | Tom Jacobs | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
In June, President Obama signed a law requiring tobacco companies to post large, graphic warnings on cigarette packs. However, new research suggests t...
Tony Newman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
While I support many restrictions on public smoking, such as at restaurants and workplaces, I believe the outdoor smoking ban and prohibition of cloves will lead to harmful and unintended consequences.
AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
RICHMOND, Va. — The new federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect on Tuesday, marking one of the first visible signs of the Food and Drug A...
USA Today | Liz Szabo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
Two separate analyses released Monday each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis, which in...
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
The president announced a handful of new initiatives designed to make it easier for American workers to save more for retirement, that makes use of behavioral economics.
Newsday | August 26, 2009 | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York
In a decision that could put a significant crimp in untaxed cigarette sales from the Poospatuck tribal reservation in Mastic, a federal judge has gran...
Global Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
By Seth Kugel SAO PAULO, Brazil -- As part of a campaign to promote the state of Sao Paulo's wide-reaching new "anti-smoking" regulations, an ad ru...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
In the name of transparency, yes, my late father lit one cigarette off the end of another from the time he was twelve until nine months before he...
TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.
Slate | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown st...
New York Times | CLYDE HABERMAN | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
Before too long, you may be forced to stare at a photo of blackened lungs, oozing decay, every time you go to the bodega for a quart of milk. ....
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
It was a tough week for the cigarette, and also for Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and three of his colleagues, who received huge campaign contributions from cigarette makers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
[Via Media Monitor Jon] Speaking of that landmark cigarette law, wending its way to the President's desk: Not everyone is in favor of it. Some, in fa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
As the New York Times reports this morning, a bill allowing the Food and Drug Administration to "impose potentially strict new controls" on the tobacc...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit ...
The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
A Republican senator who is also a doctor is calling for a new era of Prohibition -- outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use....
The Montenegro Connection | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
"My little cat ... I'm going crazy without you .... You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think .... Little cat, when are you coming? ... I love you, lit...
Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
Yes, "drugs" are a threat, as Reagan said, but classifying "marijuana" into the category of drugs that our "a threat to our people" doesn't feel right.
news.discovery.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green