The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

Pandemic-led rise in demand for smoking products and growing health concerns have incentivized tobacco companies to invent low-risk tobacco products, which should drive the industry’s growth. Moreover, being a part of the consumer defensive industry, tobacco manufacturers Altria Group (MO) and Philip Morris (PM) should witness significant investors’ attention amid…

The Biden administration signaled that it would develop a proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products. The goal of the potential rule would be to reduce youth use, addiction, and death. 

The Biden administration wants to make the tobacco industry cut back the amount of addictive nicotine allowed in cigarettes sold in the U.S.

At one point in Al Gore’s seminal 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the former vice president laments that his tobacco-farming parents didn’t stop raising tobacco until after their beloved daughter Nancy died of lung cancer in Tennessee.

New policy forcing tobacco companies to cut nicotine to nonaddictive amounts could upend industry

Aotearoa’s initiative to stop smoking will provide a crucial template that other countries could use to achieve their own smokefree goals, write Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek and Andrew Waa.

The soaring cost of cigarettes in Australia is presenting lucrative opportunities for organised crime groups, who are turning to illicit tobacco as a "low-risk and high-reward" trade.

António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer

More than 84,000 households will be sent the £105 gift card later this year - and officials admitted it would be possible for the money to be spent on cigarettes and alcohol.

A study of patients who quit smoking spontaneously reveals brain networks that are associated with alcohol and other forms of addiction

The council claims a chute from the flat above the shop was used to sell illicit cigarettes leading to its licence being revoked by councillors