It might be extra difficult to battle addictions not to things we consider bad -- like cigarettes and heroin. But when they're addicted to things we consider good -- like exercise and sex.
Tony Newman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment
The New York Post hit a new low on Tuesday when they deemed Britney Spears having a cigarette in the company of her son worthy of front page news.
Dan Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...
Simran Sethi | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.
Simran Sethi | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green
Next to crude oil, coffee may be our strongest addiction. More than half of Americans fuel themselves with one to four cups of coffee, totaling upwards of 330 million cups daily.
NY Mag | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
Remember that "Intelligencer" item about Antonin Scalia bumming a cigarette from Sarah Jessica Parker? Most people read that and thought, "A conservat...
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.
New York Magazine | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business
When Matthew Anderson, a burly 35-year-old senior state tax investigator, walks into a cluttered grocery store in Kensington, Brooklyn, he knows to fo...
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home
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...
Reuters | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
Supporters of a California measure that would impose an additional sales tax of 75 cents on a pack of cigarettes may begin collecting signatures to qu...
New York Times | Gardiner Harris | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deat...
John Ridley | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment
If a guy who makes bank selling cancer is free to travel, comparatively the gov shouldn't be denying Winehouse entry 'cause she might guzzle a little Cristal and trash a hotel room.
Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business
Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...
Jonathan Bines | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
You've been aware of the research for some time. However, until recently, it has been couched in the language of uncertainty. Now the results appear to be in, and the news is grim.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living
The unique demands of college pose challenges to women trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, strengthen self-esteem, and address personal safety issues.
Ted Goeglein | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, penicillin, Mickey Mouse, nylon, movies with sound, and bubblegum had not yet been invented. Teddy Roosevelt had two years to go in his presidency. Teddy...freaking...Roosevelt.
AP | Charles Babington | Posted 11.11.2007 | Business
Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant fe...
Patt Morrison | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living
The radio was reporting more acreage, more homes chewed up by fire. The ash was blowing in wisps off my windshield wipers. And this man flicked a lighted cigarette out of his car.
Michael Roston | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
This may be the first time in the history of political communications that a candidate's subconscious jonesing for a smoke has worked its way into his campaign literature.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
When October's Nicole Kidman cover appeared online, the bottom headline was reason alone to run and buy the issue. "Christopher Hitchens Gets A Really Extreme Makeover" with pictures? Genius. And they italicized "really", so it must be extreme.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice...
A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday...
A John McCain campaign aide tells Jay Carney that she sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to...
I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this...
For all the hullabaloo about whether John McCain would...
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Below is reaction to John McCain's Republican convention speech. David Gergen thought the...
Barack Obama made his long-anticipated debut on Fox News'...
As Cindy McCain came under criticism for wearing an outfit that some estimate was...
This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists...
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as...
First, read this list of relationship tips below. When you get to the bottom, I...
Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.01.2008 | Style