Until recently, an extra six-tenths of an inch was important mostly to carpenters, seamstresses and surgeons. Now, however, that fractional distance has become an $800 million-a-year consideration to ...

Being one who, for whatever reason, has retained my memory of random, long-ago jingles, I can still hear this one in my head: Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should. Cigarette commercials are ...

Yes, you read that right — cigarettes are having a moment again. Just when it seemed we’d burned that bad habit to the ground, Hollywood — ironically part of the nation’s most health obsessed state — ...

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter worldwide. Trillions are discarded every year in cities, parks, beaches, along railway tracks and roadside environments. Despite their small size, ...

The percentage of American adults who smoke cigarettes has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, according to a new study. About 9.9% of U.S. adults reported smoking cigarettes in 2024, a drop ...

Smokers will have to pay more for cigarettes from February 1, as the Centre rolls out a new excise duty regime based on cigarette length, along with a health cess on pan masala and tobacco products.

One more reason to kick butts. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, according to the CDC, causing everything from cancer to lung disease to heart disease. Second hand smoke, ...

At a holiday party for my graduate students and alumni, I noticed an unusual number of them traipsing out to the stoop to smoke cigarettes. I give these parties every year, and there are always a ...

Considering the bewildering array of new cigarettes, smokers may well find it easier to fight than switch. As tobacco companies jockey for bigger shares of a market that, despite the health scares, is ...