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$200 Smokes at NYC Jails? What a Ripoff.
How much would you pay for a cigarette in jail?
Paraguayans Elect Tobacco Magnate as President
(ASUNCION, Paraguay) — Paraguayans elected a tobacco magnate as their new leader Sunday, returning the conservative Colorado Party to the presidency that it held...
Industry Group Reports Early Success With Better-For-You Cigarettes
Aside from not lighting up at all, cigarettes developed to reduce a smoker's exposure to tobacco's toxins may be the best way to reduce health risks from...
New NYC Proposal Could Keep Tobacco Products Out of Site In Stores
A new proposal would require New York City retailers to keep tobacco products out of sight under a first-in-the-nation proposal aimed at reducing the youth...
FDA Backing Off of Requiring Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes
The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of...
Bloomberg Cigarette Plan Gets Praise, Criticism
NEW YORK — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City...
Colorful Way Tobacco Industry May Be Skirting Labeling Rules
Words like "light" and "mild" can't be used on cigarette packages, but colors can. In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the tobacco industry...
New Zealand Plans Logo-free Cigarette Packs
(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — Strict against smoking already, New Zealand plans to make tobacco companies remove their logos from cigarette packs but will wait...
Can Electronic Cigarettes Challenge Big Tobacco?
NJOY's King is the first electronic cigarette that actually looks (and feels and smokes) like the real thing. And it's put traditional cigarette makers on...
Judge Orders Tobacco Companies To Admit Lying About Smoking Dangers
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's...
And the World’s Top Smokers Are…
Is it getting hard to breathe in here? According to a new survey, Indonesian men smoke more than anyone else in the world. Nearly 70% of of all Indonesian males...
Largest-Ever Survey on Global Tobacco Use Issues Dire Warnings
Nearly half of all men and more than 1 in 10 women use tobacco in many developing countries, and women are starting to smoke at earlier ages, according to the...
Teens and Tobacco Use: Why Declines in Middle and High School Students Stalled
Smoking rates in teens have dropped considerably over the last decade, but the rate of decline has ground to a halt in recent years, according to the latest data...
Vietnam Bans Smoking in Public
The people of Vietnam have just under a year to use all up of their hidden smokes. As of next May, smoking in public — as well as all tobacco advertising — has...
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Percent of nonsmoking apartment dwellers who said they smelled their neighbors’ tobacco smoke in their building; half of these residents smelled smoke in their...
New Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Pass Another Hurdle
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the government’s requirement that tobacco companies put graphic warning labels on cigarette packs was constitutional...
Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol and Tobacco?
Sugar poses enough health risks that it should be considered a controlled substance just like alcohol and tobacco, contend a team of researchers from the...
Smoke Alert: Chinese Academy of Engineering Honors a Tobacco Researcher
Last month, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) promoted a scientist to its ranks after his fourth attempt to enter the hallowed body. Not big news,...
U.S. Senators Urge Baseball to Ban Tobacco
Four U.S. senators and health officials from the cities hosting the World Series are urging the baseball players union to agree to a ban on chewing tobacco at...
Judge Suspends FDA's Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
A federal judge has suspended a government plan to require tobacco companies to display graphic anti-smoking warning labels on their cigarette packs by next...
