A new peer-reviewed study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds that direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for prescription smoking-cessation drugs meaningfully reduces cigarette use. At the ...

When non-smoking teens see ads for e-cigarettes, and are curious about the products advertised, perhaps even identifying with a favorite brand, they might also be more susceptible to taking up ...

Christine Emba’s homage to the allure and attractiveness of cigarette smoking (“The Embodied Pleasure of Smoking,” Opinion guest essay, Aug. 10) should itself have a warning label on it. Tobacco use ...

There was a time when doctors in both the United States and the UK were only too happy to promote “the health benefits of smoking”. From the 1920s right through to the 1950s, actors were taken on to ...

JAKARTA, July 31 (Reuters) - Indonesia raised the minimum age limit for purchasing cigarettes to 21 from 18 as part of a series of changes to health regulations intended to curb the deadly habit in a ...

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from major tobacco companies to the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that they place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and ...

Outrage at anti-smoking ad comparing tobacco consumption to sexual slavery. PARIS, Feb. 24, 2010 — -- An anti-smoking campaign that some claimed likened the consumption of tobacco with sexual ...