Cigarettes

New Tobacco Product Alarms Health Officials

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living


MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." And the folks who created Joe Ca...

How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores

David Henry Sterry | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


David Henry Sterry

The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.

Olives, Chocolate, and Sex

Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.01.2008 | Style


Darryle Pollack

It might be extra difficult to battle addictions not to things we consider bad -- like cigarettes and heroin. But when they're addicted to things we consider good -- like exercise and sex.

NY Post Cover Story Unfairly Attacks Britney Over Smoking

Tony Newman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment


Tony Newman

The New York Post hit a new low on Tuesday when they deemed Britney Spears having a cigarette in the company of her son worthy of front page news.

We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco

Dan Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


Dan Smith

More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.

Jason Linkins

AP Gives McCain 'Cigarettes' Story A Ridiculous Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...

Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

Life Cycle: Java Break

Simran Sethi | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Next to crude oil, coffee may be our strongest addiction. More than half of Americans fuel themselves with one to four cups of coffee, totaling upwards of 330 million cups daily.

Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessics Parker Still Smoke Cigarettes

NY Mag | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment


Remember that "Intelligencer" item about Antonin Scalia bumming a cigarette from Sarah Jessica Parker? Most people read that and thought, "A conservat...

Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living


Doug Bremner

The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

Bootlegged Cigarettes On The Rise As Price With Taxes Approaches $10 A Pack

New York Magazine | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business


When Matthew Anderson, a burly 35-year-old senior state tax investigator, walks into a cluttered grocery store in Kensington, Brooklyn, he knows to fo...

Cigarette Scientists: "Cigarettes Cure Lung Cancer"

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home


An October 2006 lung cancer study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" was discovered to have been funded by a cigarette company, the "N...

California OKs First Step For Higher Cigarette Tax

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business


Supporters of a California measure that would impose an additional sales tax of 75 cents on a pack of cigarettes may begin collecting signatures to qu...

Cigarette Company Funded Lung Cancer Study

New York Times | Gardiner Harris | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business


In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deat...

The Amy Winehouse Visa Hypocrisy (updated version)

John Ridley | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment


John Ridley

If a guy who makes bank selling cancer is free to travel, comparatively the gov shouldn't be denying Winehouse entry 'cause she might guzzle a little Cristal and trash a hotel room.

Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business


Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...

An Inconvenient Question?

Jonathan Bines | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics


Jonathan Bines

You've been aware of the research for some time. However, until recently, it has been couched in the language of uncertainty. Now the results appear to be in, and the news is grim.

College Women: Give Yourself the Gift of a Healthier Future

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living


Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

The unique demands of college pose challenges to women trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, strengthen self-esteem, and address personal safety issues.

A Hundred Years Later

Ted Goeglein | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living


Ted Goeglein

The last time the Cubs won the World Series, penicillin, Mickey Mouse, nylon, movies with sound, and bubblegum had not yet been invented. Teddy Roosevelt had two years to go in his presidency. Teddy...freaking...Roosevelt.

Congress Seeks Major Federal Tax Increase On Cigarettes

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 11.11.2007 | Business


Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant fe...

Cigarette Butts and Buttheads in a Time of Fire

Patt Morrison | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living


Patt Morrison

The radio was reporting more acreage, more homes chewed up by fire. The ash was blowing in wisps off my windshield wipers. And this man flicked a lighted cigarette out of his car.

Is Something On Your Mind, Senator Obama?

Michael Roston | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics


Michael Roston

This may be the first time in the history of political communications that a candidate's subconscious jonesing for a smoke has worked its way into his campaign literature.

Vanity Fair Is A Crack-Waxing Tease

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media


When October's Nicole Kidman cover appeared online, the bottom headline was reason alone to run and buy the issue. "Christopher Hitchens Gets A Really Extreme Makeover" with pictures? Genius. And they italicized "really", so it must be extreme.