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North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania under a decade-old settlement.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that tobacco companies hoping to block new restrictions on their marketing have little chance of succeeding.
Tobacco advocates are seething over a new Canadian law they claim will snuff out sales of cigarettes packed with U.S. burley, and they are fighting back to protect their export sales.
The weak economy and higher prices are snuffing out cigarette demand around the world — most vigorously in the U.S., where a federal tax hike, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma have cut demand at least 10 percent.
They're among the lucky few, John, Fred and Dave Arnold. There's a good supply of crisp broadleaf tobacco drying in their 14 curing sheds and over the next couple of weeks they'll be pulling it down, bundling it up and selling it for the best price they can get. Pretty much what their family has done every year since the 1830s in the Connecticut River Valley.
Cigarette maker Philip Morris has dropped its lawsuit challenging San Francisco's prohibition on tobacco sales at pharmacies.
The Canadian province of Ontario said Tuesday it is suing the tobacco industry in a bid to recover billions of dollars in smoking-related health care costs.
Foreign tobacco buyers who are paying less than agreed-upon prices for the country's main cash crop are the "enemy of the people" and will be expelled, said the president of this African nation, whose government this week deported three of them.
Two of the three largest U.S. tobacco companies filed suit Monday to block marketing restrictions in a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco, claiming the provisions violate their right to free speech.
Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.
A judge has permanently barred Ohio authorities from spending roughly $250 million in anti-tobacco funds on other programs and balancing the state budget.
Two of the world's biggest cigarette makers reported Thursday that they emerged from the second quarter in better shape than analysts expected, having raised prices and cut costs to offset falling demand in the U.S. and Europe and to cope with a new tax in the U.S.
A Pentagon-commissioned report urges the Defense Department to ban smoking in the military, even by combat troops in battle zones, a proposal that quickly ignited a controversy among service members.
Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he's spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation's toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.
President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he got hooked on as a teenager as he signed the nation's strongest-ever anti-smoking bill Monday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for kids.
A look at legislation President Barack Obama signed into law Monday that gives the Food and Drug Administration regulatory controls over tobacco products.
President Barack Obama has signed the strongest anti-smoking measure ever, calling it an extraordinary accomplishment that will help keep children from getting hooked on cigarettes.
Tobacco advocates used to being on the defensive in their own country are fuming over a Canadian proposal they say could essentially ban some American leaf often used in cigarettes sold across the northern border.
MOREHEAD, Ky. — Late in the morning last New Year's Day, Sam and Lynn Kissick received a devastating phone call that would tear their lives apart.
President Barack Obama says a bill giving the government much greater power to regulate tobacco "truly defines change in Washington."
The 79-17 roll call on Thursday by which the Senate voted to give the government extensive new powers to regulate how tobacco companies will make and market their products.
Main provisions of legislation giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the production and marketing of tobacco products:
They're the newest smoke-free tobacco products — dissolvable pellets or strips that don't require users to chew or even spit. Sold in shiny plastic cases, the products melt in your mouth like breath mints.
President Barack Obama is lauding the passage of historic anti-smoking legislation that gives the government sweeping authority to regulate tobacco products, pledging to quickly sign the measure into law.
Like smoking, defending tobacco just isn't cool anymore.
Having fun on a Saturday morning back in the good old days!! Note: Names are changed to protect the innocent, of which there were ..... ....... mmmmm ...... none
Professor David Nutt sacked after claims that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcoholProfessor David Nutt, the government's chief drug adviser, has been sacked a day after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.
UPDATED-UK drug czar fired for challenging hardline policy on cannabis and ecstasyThe Government's drugs tsar, Professor David Nutt, was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
Swedish Match under fire in secret snus substance investigation Tobacco company Swedish Match has been accused of adding a substance to moist snuff or 'snus' to purposely increase user dependency and, in turn, boosts sales of their products.
Cigarette maker destroyed studies on tobacco, researchers sayImperial Tobacco Canada destroyed seven million pages of research which included decades worth of studies that indicated the devastating effects of smoking, a new medical journal article alleges.
BBC NEWS | UK | Newsagents warn Labour over banNewsagents try to blackmail labour over the threat of banning Tobacco on display.
Government & Phillip Morris Corporatism at it's finestEveryone seems to be looking the other way as Big Tobacco uses Government regulation for profit.
Flavors Banned From Cigarettes to Deter YouthsFederal health officials banned the sale of flavored cigarettes on Tuesday in the first major crackdown since the Food and Drug Administration was given the authority to regulate tobacco.
Heart Disease experts say pay poorer people to quit smoking - a strategy that PAYSKey example: study of more than 800 GE employees in the US found those who were offered rolling payments of up to $750 a year to quit smoking and remain abstinent were about three times more likely to quit long-term.
Tobacco Companies Sue FDA, Alleging Free-Speech Infringement Tobacco companies including Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. filed a lawsuit against the U.S. and the Food and Drug Administration, saying that a June law imposed "unprecedented restrictions" on First Amendment rights.
Happily, today I am a non smoker. A little over a year ago I was having a shower (with my wife if you know what I mean) and I almost passed out. So that was my turning point. I knew then that after 20 years of lighting up it was time to make a serious change in my life.
Obama appointees: Plenty of empty seats, Plenty of thrones. 1:07 am on August 24, 2009 Posted by Karl The New York Times has noticed that after seven months in office, Pres. Obama has filled only 43 percent of the 543 policymaking jobs requiring Senate confirmation in four top executive ranks:
Tobacco smugglers to make a packet from Customs blunderMillions of pounds seized from tobacco smugglers over the past eight years will have to be returned because Customs officers unlawfully confiscated their assets, The Independent has learnt.
Cool crisp fall air, I remember. The sweater with the deep pockets I used to dig my hands down into. We would walk out to the pond and light up.
The Billion Dollar Gram - Billions Spent on this. Billions spenton that. It's all relative right? [Infographic]The image really is the content so there's no meaningful lead-in text. This is simply an elegant graphical comparison of some of the large amounts of money we see tossed about on a daily basis.
Tobacco Tax: Stock up or quit?Are more smokers kicking the habit? That's what state economists are trying to figure out.
'Substantial reduction' in tobacco sales to minorsRetail sales of tobacco products to people under 18 are at the lowest level they have been in years, says a report being released today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
A topic which gets raised constantly here at Newsvine and other blogger sites as well as media in general is the subject of relaxing or decriminalised completely the growing and personal use of Marijuana.
Should We Ban Tobacco? Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.Cigarettes kill; 400,000 people die prematurely every year from smoking. When we analyze the harm from drugs, there is no doubt that cigarettes are the worst. They kill more people than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and all other illegal drugs combined.
Catholic bank owned pill sharesA Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies.
The crawl on the bottom of Fox News Channel informed me that a study commissioned by the military has found that the military should phase out tobacco use over the next 20 years.
State aims to reduce smokingA new state plan asks Oklahomans to help reduce a leading cause of death by cutting smoking rates to below the national average by 2012.
Pentagon to ban tobacco use?Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.
Pentagon May Try to Ban Smoking in MilitaryPressure is emerging in the Pentagon to ban smoking by soldiers and prohibit the sale of tobacco on military bases. Those steps were urged in a study for the Defense Department by the Institute of Medicine.
Comics and Editorial Cartoons: Jerry Holbert on Yahoo! NewsFunny comic including Obama.
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