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.
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.
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.
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved a step closer to handing the Food and Drug Administration broad new authority to regulate tobacco produ...
Robert Weissman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
Philip Morris International today starts business as an independent company, no longer affiliated with Philip Morris USA or the parent company, Altria...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media
If getting married really did make people healthier, and did so in a way that no other close relationship or meaningful life experiences could approximate, that would be a story worth reporting.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living
What is causing a disturbing increase in pediatric cancer and why are we losing what numerous scientists suggest is a winnable war on cancer?
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.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living
Poverty is a carcinogen: lower education and income levels are linked to higher rates of cancer.
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...
Peter Clothier | Posted 01.15.2008 | Living
I hereby give myself permission to eat and drink as much and as often as I want to, but undertake to be conscious of the choices I make and aware of their consequences.
ABC News | Posted 01.12.2008 | Business
The owner of a small German computer company has fired three non-smoking workers because they were threatening to disturb the peace after they request...
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.
Merrill Goozner | Posted 11.28.2007 | Living
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed a resolution asking Medicare and the VA to pay for expensive lung cancer screening tests using CT scans. Local hospitals are already jumping on the bandwagon.
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.
Jeff Stier | Posted 11.13.2007 | Living
It is ironic that after decades of unscientific claims by the tobacco industry, this time it is the anti-smoking groups being accused of distorting the science.
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Tony Newman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment