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 ...

*A series of electronic cigarette adverts in Belfast have been banned after being branded as racist. The billboard poster for Nicofresh e-cigarettes featured an elderly white woman sitting on a couch ...

Estimates suggest that among children who try smoking, between one third and one half are likely to become regular smokers within two to three years. However, young people are now more likely to ...

For years the Federal Trade Commission has tried snuffing out misleading cigarette ads as often as they appear. But by the time a cease-and-desist order can be issued, the company in question is apt ...

In a recent study published in the journal Tobacco Induced Diseases, researchers conducted a four-nation-wide cross-sectional online survey to assess youths’ exposure to media-based e-cigarette ...

In the tobacco industry’s palmier days, cigarette ads highlighted big-name stars with their cigarettes smoldering and innocent-looking young women who cooed, “Blow some my way.” Now the message is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Women are paying a deadly price for being targeted by tobacco advertisers in the post-war years, health experts claimed yesterday. They were responding to research showing that this year more British ...

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 ...