This past June, the U.S. Senate empowered the FDA to oversee the marketing and packaging of tobacco products. Among the FDA’s first targets: controversial descriptors like “light,” “mild,” and “low ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new law will strip cigarette packs of all their branding, and tobacco companies aren’t very happy about it If ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Rotting teeth. Diseased lungs. A corpse of a smoker. Nine new warning labels that feature graphic images that convey the dangers of smoking will be required by the Food and Drug ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tobacco companies largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs being sold, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a ...

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In this paper, we define illicit white cigarettes as cigarettes that are legal in the country of production, but that are illegally smuggled into other markets without the payment of applicable taxes.

Each time New York state increased its tobacco tax — now at $4.35 per pack of cigarettes — calls to the state's Quitline spiked. In New York City, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg hiked the tax even more.