PARENTS BEWARE - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has chosen Raleigh as one of five new test markets for its Camel Snus smokeless products, beginning July 1 . . .
Decline in Teen Smoking Hits a Wall - Public Health Officials Worry as a Promising Years-Long Trend Goes Flat! The new federal data by the CDC shows . . .
Fred Thompson: The Philip Morris Candidate - If Fred Thompson is elected president, he will be the first federally registered lobbyist to become Commander in Chief . . .
The Enzi War on Tobacco - We must greatly reduce the size of the United States tobacco market and the negative health impacts of tobacco use.
The Untold Story of - How & Why Philip Morris is Pushing for FDA Regulation - It may seem incongruous to the average person why Philip Morris (PM) would back legislation to . . .
Law may cut fires - Cigarettes to be self-extinguishing by January 2010. A new law signed yesterday by Gov. Mike Easley gives tobacco manufacturers until January 2010 . . .
SECONDHAND SMOKE - Bans on smoking in cars with kids catching out nationwide - The Arkansas Legislature banned smoking in cars with young children quickly and quietly . . .
Planck's promise and risk - PBC is betting that having two of the world's top research organizations will draw venture capitalists, start-up companies and . . .
Harm perception of nicotine products in college freshmen - This study examined the association of sociodemographic characteristics and smoking behaviors (i.e., cigarette, . . .
Smokers should be treated like drug addicts, say doctors - Half of all smokers will die prematurely if they do not give up, 150 million of them worldwide in the next 20 years . . .
How teens under age 18 usually get cigarettes: - About one-third of students in grades 6-8 usually obtain cigarettes through social sources (borrowed them: 23.3%, got from . . .
Cigarette Smoking Statistics - In the United States, an estimated 25.1 million men
(23.4 percent) and 20.9 million women (18.5 percent) are smokers . . .
Report Links Teen Smoking, Depression - Smoking cigarettes may make teens more susceptible to depression, alcohol abuse, and illegal drug use, a new report states . . .
Light Cigarettes Just As Deadly as Regular Versions, and Tobacco Companies Knew It - Light cigarettes are just as deadly as regular cigarettes, but tobacco companies kept . . .
Cigarette Smoking and Home - Dear Sir/Madame, My husband and I are about to buy a home that reeks of tobacco.  I have spent a lot of time reading articles . . .
A Hidden Epidemic - Very few are aware that smoking is concentrated among people with mental illness, often compounded by substance-abuse disorders such as alcoholism . . .
Study Finds That Heart Attacks In Non-smokers Decreased With Smoking Ban - People with no risk factors for heart disease can still experience heart attacks . . .
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults -- USA, 2006, CDC Report - One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce cigarette smoking among adults to <12% . . .
Thank You For Smoking - while Washington is encouraging Americans to quit, it has been helping big tobacco push cigarette smoking in other countries, using trade pacts . . .
Last Gaspers - Forget zero tolerance! How to beat smoking? For more than a century, the cigarette has exercised its seductive power over human beings. Its allure lies in its . . .
Amendment 4 Spending - Zimmerman Wins Florida's Anti-Smoking Campaign - The Florida DOH has awarded its $17 million Florida Tobacco Prevention account to the Zimmerman . . .
Global Fight Against Tobacco Intensifies - Likening the tobacco industry to a "disease vector" such as a virus or bacterium, a report by the World Health Organization . . .
WHO Unveils Global Effort to Fight Smoking - U.N. Organization Says Tobacco Now Causes 10 Percent of World's Adult Deaths . . .
Where There's Smoke: Emerging World - WHO to Offer a Road Map To Combat Tobacco Use; Sales Up in Poorer Nations . . .
Cigarette & Tobacco Smuggling - Bill to Crack Down on Tobacco Smuggling - Tobacco products are the single largest, illegally trafficked, legal product on the planet," . . .
Cynicism and Big Tobacco -- Congress wants to give regulators more authority over the tobacco industry - so what else is new? The surprise is that currently there are no . . .
Hooked from the First Cigarette -- New findings reveal that cigarette addiction can arise astonishingly fast. ADOLESCENTS can become addicted to cigarettes just weeks . . .
Children vs. Secondhand Smoke -  British Medical Journal - Second Hand Smoke Increases Hospital Admissions for All Types of Infectious Diseases . . .
Smokeless use on rise as cigarette sales fall - Smoking may be in decline in the USA, but overall tobacco use isn't, according to a report from the Harvard School of Public . . .
Bill Gates, Mayor Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking - Not merely content to ban smoking here, Mayor Bloomberg is joining with Bill Gates to spread his anti-smoking . . .
House Votes to Regulate Tobacco as a Drug - Decades after the surgeon general first warned that cigarettes were a health hazard, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly . .
Enzi Denounces House Passage Of "Marlboro Protection Act" - "Big tobacco supports this bill because it will not stop anyone from smoking." U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) . . .
Reynolds American statement on House passage of FDA regulation - Reynolds American and its operating companies do not oppose additional reasonable federal . . .
Montgomery College Snuffs Out Smoking - first, smokers had to move outside the building. Then it was 25 feet from the building entrance. Now it has come to this  . . .
Tobacco Bill Aids Philip Morris, Not Health - All this bill would do is give a perception that cigarettes and other tobacco products are approved for sale by the FDA . . .
Loophole in tobacco regulation bill - A loophole in a sweeping tobacco regulation bill would give the industry a 21-month window to introduce some new products without . . .