If You Have Ever Smoked, Just Give Up
Are you now or have you ever been a smoker of the dreaded ātobacky?ā Perhaps you gave up the habit long ago, for your health? No matterāyou are doomed.
Tobacco giant Altria today posted strong profits, with analysts crediting the fact that low gas prices have allowed smokers to purchase more expensive cigarettes. The system works.
France, Known for Its Glamorous Smoking Habit, Will Remove Logos From Its Cigarette Packaging
Nothing is more antithetical to the aesthetic of a French new wave film than a packet of cigarettes labeled with grotesque images of rotting body parts. Except, perhaps, a pack of cigarettes with no branding on it at all.
Tobacco Company Now Just a Company of Brands (That Are Tobacco)Ā
Imperial Tobacco Group, the maker of Kools, Winstons, Cohibas, and Gauloises, is changing its name to Imperial Brands, in order to remind the world what the company is really about: brands.
Professor Arrested for Smoking on Plane Did It For "The Revolution"
The sociology professor arrested over the weekend after she lit a cigarette on a flight from Nicaragua to Miami and loudly ranted for hours about the United States declaring war on Venezuela, told her crazy side of the crazy story to Philadelphia magazine today. It is everything you hoped it could be.
Woman Arrested for Smoking on Plane, Yelling About Venezuela for 2 Hours
On a flight from Nicaragua to Miami Sunday, a woman decided to test American Airlines' "no smoking" rule by lighting up on the plane. Even though everyone had seen her (and some of her fellow passengers were taking video), she tried to pin it on the guy sitting next to her. As in-flight annoyances go, smoking in anā¦
The Most Successful Industry of the Past Century
What do you think the most successful industry in America has been in the past 100 years? A hint: it's home to the most successful company of the past 50 years.
Study: Smoking Is Worse For You Than We Thought
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that smoking cigarettes is way worse for your health than researchers had previously thought. Smoking apparently causes five additional diseases which previously had not been linked to tobacco use.
A new study finds that "Cigars may be as bad for your health as cigarettes." Surprise, I guess? Fortunately cigar smokers are mostly teens and rich guys, so no big loss.
Reynolds Tobacco is seeking to buy Lorillard, bringing Camels and Newports together in a $56 billion cigarette behemoth just in time for everyone to switch from Camels and Newports to e-cigarettes.
Study: American Teens Love That Sweet Hookah Taste
Hookah, a type of waterpipe that's been used to smoke tobacco for centuries, has recently gotten some traction among the American teenage set. According to a new NYU study, almost 20 percent of high school seniors admit to using a hookah.
Why Are Poor People Still Smoking?
You know who still smokes a lot of cigarettes? Poor people. While yuppies are quitting and taking up Pilates and Zumba, the poors just keep puffing away. It's sad. Policy makers are vexed. What other, healthier habits could the very poor pick up?
Cigarette-Smoking Bird Almost Burns Down London Apartment
London firefighters blame a pigeon with a lit cigarette in its mouth for igniting a rooftop fire that evacuated an apartment building.
Smoking Somehow Even Worse Than You Thought
Sure, everyone knows that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and stankness. But that's not all!
Teens Are Smoking Lots of, Uh, "Cigars"
Today's flaccid teenagers are more interested in "gaming" on the computer with their "I-friends" than in smoking cigarettes, traditionally the cool teen pastime of choice. There is at least some burning, noxious silver lining for the tobacco industry.
The New York City Council voted Wednesday to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco from 18 to 21. The new minimum age will take effect six months after Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs the bill into law.
Australia is now the proud home of the world's most unattractive cigarette packaging.
Robo-Vaping Is the Sad Future of Smoking
Lawmakers in Europe have voted to ban menthol cigarettes, but have rejected a proposal to heavily regulate "E-cigarettes." This development further cements the vast gulf between the cool, dangerous, retro smoking choices of the past, and today's ridiculous techno-vaping nerd trend.
Obama: "I Haven't Smoked in Six Years Because I'm Scared of My Wife"
President Obama was caught on a live microphone today telling U.N. official Maina Kiai that he hasn't smoked in six years because he's "scared of my wife." Cue your crazy right-wing uncle's next chain email: "NOBAMA ADMITS HE'S AFRAID OF A WOMAN, JUST LIKE ALL MALE LIBTARDS! GUESS WE KNOW WHO WEARS THE PANTS IN THEā¦
