Just when we thought the theft of our personal freedoms had added yet another level of frustration, Arkansas lawmakers rejected a ban on snuff.
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.
Diane Dimond | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home
Earlier this month the ATF quietly revealed that the owners admitted a substantial part of their inventory was either "missing, lost or stolen." After adding it all up the ATF concluded that, collectively, those registered gun dealers "lost" 82 firearms every single day!
Reuters | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
When a smoking ban comes into force in the Netherlands next Tuesday, it may kill the buzz for people who like to smoke their cannabis with tobacco. Bu...
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...
Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
How exactly does senior campaign advisor Charlie Black divorce his tobacco lobbyist insider knowledge from his political advisor campaign guru self?
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.
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.
Baldemar Velasquez | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics
The union that I represent, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee will be rallying a protest in Winston-Salem at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company over some deadly serious matters.
Nancy Watzman | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
Missing from most news reports on the debate over the State Children's Health Insturance Program (S-CHIP) is one reason why getting an override on the...
Nancy Watzman | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
Missing from most news reports on the debate over the State Children's Health Insturance Program (S-CHIP) is one reason why getting an override on the...
Merrill Goozner | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
The NIH insists the trial is well-designed. But when it comes to conflicts of interest, appearances matter. The expenditure of $200 million in taxpayer money should have resulted in a definitive answer.
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Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 08.16.2008 | Politics