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Congress has moved to stamp out a multibillion-dollar tobacco trafficking industry that has enriched criminals and terrorists and made it easier for kids to buy cigarettes online.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday named its new tobacco advisory panel and said the group is preparing for its first meeting late this month.
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to allow the government to seek nearly $300 billion from the tobacco industry for a half-century of deception that "has cost the lives and damaged the health of untold millions of Americans."
The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products — that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine — could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults.
Vermont anti-smoking groups are trying to defend their programs' budget, but Douglas administration officials say those programs aren't being targeted for significant cuts.
The Food and Drug Administration is working to lift the smokescreen clouding the ingredients used in cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government's last-ditch attempt to extract billions from companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking, The Associated Press has learned.
The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an online cigarette marketer who claimed his company was immune from state laws regulating tobacco sales.
An Ohio appeals court has reversed a decision that a cigarette company's advertisement in Rolling Stone magazine violated a tobacco industry settlement.
A judge has overturned two of the marketing restrictions in the new federal tobacco law, including a ban on color and graphics in most tobacco advertising.
How 10 states rank in funding for tobacco use prevention, in millions of dollars, compared with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation for each state.
When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.
The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.
A New Hampshire judge has ordered a business that sells loose tobacco to customers who roll their own cigarettes to make payments into a national tobacco settlement fund, or stop selling the tobacco.
The University of Montana is proposing a campus-wide ban on all forms of tobacco, though students and staff would have nearly two years to quit before it's enforced.
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.
FDA announces tobacco restrictionsThe Food and Drug Administration announced regulations Thursday that ban the sale and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to people younger than 18 — measures that, for the most part, already have been implemented by the states.
12 Reasons to Really Quit Smoking - Page 2 - MSN Health & Fitness - Quit SmokingQUIT SMOKING FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AND EVERYONE ELSE'S
Resources for YouMake 2010 the year you stop smoking. These resources can help you quit.
Soda: A Sin We Sip Instead of Smoke?"What you want," says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, "is to reverse the fact that healthy food is too expensive and unhealthy food is too cheap, and the soda tax is a start.
U.S. would reap billions from $1 cigarette tax hikeYahoo News: "Adding a $1 per pack tax to cigarettes could raise more than $9 billion a year for states, health advocates said on Wednesday, and a poll released with the study shows Americans would support such a tax.
Dem. Senators Spent Weekend with Bank, Energy, Tobacco LobbyistsTwelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by Politico.com.
Tobacco smoke causes lung inflammation, promotes lung cancer growthRepeated exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, and one reason is that it steps up inflammation in the lung.
Rightwing climate change deniers are all for free speech - when it suits themAs soon as you point out that someone on the right has made misleading claims, you are accused of pursuing a witch-hunt or behaving like the Inquisition.
The Hemisphere: Bootleg Cigarettes - TIMESmoking smuggled U.S. cigarettes is rapidly becoming as commonplace in Canada as was the drinking of smuggled Canadian liquor in the U.S. during Prohibition.
Afghan opiate drug money trail exposed: US-backed corrupt get 75%, Taliban only 4%Article exposes the opiate drug money trail in Occupied Afghanistan since the US invasion and US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opiate industry. US-backed and US-protected corrupt get 75% , the Taliban only 4%.
Alcohol, tobacco make top 10 list of risky drugsNew "landmark" research finds that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than some illegal drugs like marijuana or Ecstasy and should be classified as such in legal systems, according to a new British study.
Switch to 'Light' Cigarettes Makes Quitting Tougher - MSN Health & Fitness - Quit SmokingCarcinogens are produced during the combustion of organic matter - all kinds. Tobacco is one of the worst because of the high levels of tar produced by its burning/incomplete burning (pyrolysis). In its quest to lessen the health burden on our citizenry, the U.S.
Killer Crop: Tobacco Facts To Inspire Quitting for a Healthier WorldGiving up smoking is tough, but by rejecting an industry that is harming people and planet in the name of profit, you will be contributing to a healthier you and to a healthier world. Good luck to all the potential ex-smokers out there….you can do it!
Chattanooga Times Free Press | Progress slow in choking off smoking ratesSmoking will soon become a crime punishable by imprisonment. All the millions of tax revenue will come from another source and used to house prisoners. I can just see someone giving up cigarettes and walking outside for some fresh air and getting run over by smoky old dump truck.
Washington, D.C. - In a stunning and totally unexpected move, the Obama administration has suddenly pulled the rug from under the anti-smoking movement and is set to reverse laws prohibiting the use of tobacco in public places.
Drug May Help Smokers Quit...Moving to Phase III TrialsThe NicVAX vaccine prompts the immune system to create antibodies that bind to the nicotine molecules in the blood. The now-larger molecules are prevented by their size from crossing the blood-brain barrier.
Alan Johnson accused of misleading MPs over sacking of Professor David NuttEvan Harris, the party's science spokesman, has demanded an apology for Prof Nutt, who was fired after ministers complained that he had "crossed the line" by briefing against ministers.
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
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.
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.
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