Sheila Powe of Detroit talks about the nationwide ban of menthol cigarettes aimed at protecting African Americans outside of Big V Party Store on Greenfield Road in Detroit on April 30, 2021. Sheila ...

You smell it before you see it. A creeping odor that foretells of tar-ridden lungs. The wrinkled toxic sticks that foreshadow one's future death bed. It’s responsible for 480,000 deaths per year in ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule this week that requires tobacco companies to place new graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements.Beginning on June 18, ...

THE nation’s cigarette manufacturers have been under increasing fire since the U.S. Surgeon General reported in 1964 that “cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality.” The Surgeon ...

The world’s largest multinational tobacco companies are advertising cigarettes to kids near playgrounds and schools in 42 majority low- and middle-income countries. That’s the key finding of our ...

Just before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1970, Virginia Slims aired a new commercial during The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. It was a celebration of the progress women have made over ...

NEW YORK — A phalanx of white-coated doctors endorses Camel cigarettes in an exhibit that opened this week at the New York Public Library. Movie stars and baseball greats are there, too, in tobacco ...

After decades of direct marketing, African Americans are the primary consumer of menthol cigarettes, a product that's minty and smooth flavor profile makes it difficult to quit and easy to get hooked.