Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry ...

Despite sitting atop a tobacco behemoth that is very often the butt of endless criticism from government officials and public health advocates, Philip Morris International CEO André Calantzopoulos ...

The Food and Drug Administration wants to prevent smoking-related deaths by making cigarettes less appealing. Toward that end, the FDA plans to ban menthol cigarettes and limit nicotine content to ...

Smokers in a New Hampshire tobacco shop have been lining up to use a commercial roll-your-own machine. The contraption spits out hundreds of cigarettes — for less than half the price of brand names.

For most of its history, the tobacco business primarily meant one thing for Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. — cigarettes. Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, traces its lineage to ...

Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse. That’s according to a new report from public health nonprofit Truth ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Dug ...

We still see them on occasion: Groups of two or three, huddled together in a small patch of shade, sharing their morning cigarette break. Or, sometimes, the solitary smoker, standing alone against ...

The majority of American adults, including current smokers, would support cigarette manufacturers making their products less addictive, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

The Food and Drug Administration appears likely to move to ban menthol in cigarettes this week — a step, experts say, that has been years in the making and that could have a significant positive ...

Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, is the author of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books). Follow him on Twitter: ...