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 ...

Illicit white cigarettes are cigarettes that are legal in the country of production, but are illegally smuggled into other markets where no tax is paid. This paper analyzes whether taxes create a ...

When the New York excise tax was hiked, the Albany Times-Union noted, "it's the nation's highest and brings a pack of cigarettes at many retailers to about $12….Health advocates hailed the increase, ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Last December, Australia became the first country to ...

Plain tobacco packaging may reduce the likelihood of smokers seeking to obtain cigarettes by almost 10 percent compared to branded packs, according to new research. Plain tobacco packaging may reduce ...

President Obama, who claimed when he first entered the White House to have mostly kicked his nicotine habit, might have been caught on camera holding a pack of cigarettes. The commander in chief is ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Is President Barack Obama smoking again? There has been speculation since the Group of Seven meeting in southern Germany last weekend, when the Italian Prime Minister Matteo ...