Mid-century cigarette ads did more than sell tobacco. They sold emotional safety through white coats, calm language, and… The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 1950s, cigarettes were indeed promoted as being good for health, which may seem surprising given what we know today ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

e-Cigarette companies have substantially increased their advertising to a broad television-viewing audience, resulting in an incredibly dramatic jump in exposure of its products to both teens and ...

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 ...