If policymakers are serious about reducing smoking and improving public health, they need to recognise a basic truth: raising taxes without enforcing the law is a losing strategy.

The general store in White Bird has reopened to offer locals basic grocery items as well as liquor, beer, wine, cigarettes ...

They’ve worked out how to stop these recalcitrant smokers in their tracks. As of this week, every cigarette will have a warning printed on the paper. If the rotting lung or the gormless dead ...

Resource staff conduct a briefing at the incident command post in Pickens County, S.C., on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley) Advertisement ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible: He’s releasing the source code he wrote for Altair BASIC, the company’s ...

Smoke from the Table Rock fire rises behind the briefing center for the incident command post in Pickens County, S.C., on Saturday.

Tobacco companies say this has hit their own vape and cigarette sales. U.S. authorities have said these unauthorised vapes, including products made by Chinese firms, are illegal to import into the ...

Ash Kicker: “We are judgement-free,” says Jones cofounder Caroline Vasquez Huber. “Cut back, quit, do whatever you want. For Jones, if you slip up, that’s okay. We celebrate progress over ...

Character actor Denis Arndt, who appeared in Basic Instinct, a slate of David E. Kelley shows and earned a Tony nomination for his role in Broadway’s two-hander Heisenberg, has died at the age ...

Phillip Morris had just launched legal action to try to force the government to back down on introducing plain packaging for cigarettes. But the government did not waver, moving to ensure all ...

THE cost of a pack of cigarettes will not rise after the Spring Statement, it was confirmed today. Smokers won't have to pay more for cigs as the Chancellor did not announce plans to hike rates in ...

Cigarettes account for 97% of the volume of the combustible products it sells. So cigarettes make up around 80% of the company's business. Image source: Getty Images. That's a problem. As peer ...