The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

Consider this for an illustration of just how much society has changed in the past few generations: New data shows that, for the first time ever, more Americans use marijuana than tobacco. It’s positive news from a public health standpoint. Whatever the legitimate concerns about the U.S. becoming a pot-head…

Companies in the S&P 500 that consecutively raise dividends for over 25 years and 50 years, are known as dividend aristocrats and kings, respectively. When hunting for dividend stocks, it can prove to be beneficial investing in corporations that consecutively raise dividends. Here are three dividend stocks that have raised dividend…

Win or lose, tobacco companies are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to a California proposition that they spent a fraction of that amount to get on this fall’s ballot.

Ivy Dash died in 2020 after a "devastating" decline caused by mesothelioma

‘Heavy taxes have made India the fourth largest market for illicit cigarettes in the world’

The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?

The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s third-largest city banished flavored tobacco products from store shelves this summer, joining scores of other cities and counties in the state in a public health push to reduce nicotine addiction among youths and young adults.

WASHINGTON — Experts and advocates are calling on the Biden administration to do more to avoid potential confrontations between police and racial minorities if the Food and Drug Administration finalizes a ban on menthol cigarettes.

ENFIELD, Connecticut — Gerald Gray wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare his meals for the long day in the fields as one of the 100 Jamaican workers employed by the Jarmoc family on the Jarmoc Farms tobacco fields.

An estimated 85 percent of Black smokers use menthols, according to the FDA, compared with 30 percent of white smokers.