Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigOct 31, 2013
A pack of smokes in New York City will set you back at least $10.50 -- and only if you're 21 or older -- if Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs into law two measures passed Wednesday by the City Council. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 27, 2013
E-cigarettes, those small vaporizers that deliver nicotine to the lungs without fire and smoke, are the apparent future of tobacco, and the FDA is about to respond to the industry with a pack of regulations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 25, 2012
In a rare victory for the tobacco industry, a U.S. appeals court has ruled against the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that cigarette manufacturers adorn their products with pictures of dead and diseased smokers, saying the mandate constituted a violation of free speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 18, 2012
Physical inactivity -- defined as less than 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week -- kills 5.3 million people worldwide annually, more than the 5 million who succumb to the dangers of cigarette smoking, researchers at Harvard report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 27, 2010
In the first worldwide study of the effects of "passive smoking," researchers at the World Health Organization have discovered that 600,000 people -- a third of them children -- die each year from secondhand smoke. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 11, 2010
If the black-and-white surgeon general's warning on cigarette packaging hasn't served as fair warning to smokers that bad things are likely to happen to them if they keep lighting up their cancer sticks, the new, super-graphic images to be slapped on their smoke packs just might. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigSep 16, 2010
There is nothing fresh or surprising about Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the would-be speaker, a figure so closely associated with corporate special interests that he looks, sounds and behaves exactly like a lobbyist. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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