Between half and one-third of smokers presented with corrective statements about the dangers of smoking indicated that some of the information was new to them and motivated them to quit, finds a new ...

While veterans’ smoking rates have declined, smoking remains a persistent, deadly issue: About 22 percent of veterans are ...

Despite killing 6 million people each year, tobacco use is still rampant worldwide, according to the new edition of the Tobacco Atlas, a report from the American Cancer Society and the World Lung ...

The effects of smoking tobacco have been and continue to be well-documented, yet 15 percent of adults in the United States still smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ...

Would you knowingly put embalming fluid, radioactive materials or cancer causing chemicals into your mouth? If you dip or chew smokeless tobacco products, you’re doing just that every time you indulge ...

Misperceptions about nicotine abound. Nicotine is not the main cancer-causing component in cigarettes; still, many believe it is. Nicotine makes cigarettes addictive; many people believe it does not.

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I want to correct misstatements in the Aug. 23 article about Linn County supervisors voting not to ban the sale of dissolvable tobacco products. Iowa retailers operate under display restrictions that ...

STAMFORD – A group of seventh grade students at Stamford Central School earned a pizza party recently and received an important message about tobacco. Assemblyman Peter Lopez stopped in not only to ...