More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s ...

Move over, wide-leg pants! Cigarette jeans are the trendiest bottoms in town, and they’re taking over city streets and runways alike. A-listers like Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Aniston and Dakota ...

Smokers in Washington may soon face a sharp spike in the cost of cigarettes. Lawmakers are considering an increase in the tobacco tax, which would again give Washington among the highest cigarette ...

(The Center Square) - A new report shows Arizona could save billions of dollars if it lowered the number of residents who smoke. Common Sense Institute Arizona released a report on Wednesday morning ...

Michael LaFaive is senior director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Todd Nesbit is an economist and assistant professor at Ball State University. Public officials in Indiana ...

One more reason to kick butts. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, according to the CDC, causing everything from cancer to lung disease to heart disease. Second hand smoke, ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

A video of a woman relighting her cigarette with a flaming picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was filmed in Canada, not Iran, as has been claimed online. The woman, wearing a ...

There isn’t much research on those of us who bum a cigarette every so often, but here’s what we do know: Cigarettes are still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, ...

Shares of ITC Ltd. plunged the most in nearly six years after a higher levy on tobacco products by the government fueled concerns about its impact on India’s largest cigarette maker. Cigarettes will ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) — One of the unintended consequences of Indiana’s higher cigarette tax is that more smokers are crossing the Ohio River to buy their cigarettes in Kentucky. Lee Peterson lives ...