Trump's FDA moved to squash a proposed rule to ban menthol cigarettes just one day after the president was sworn in, angering anti-smoking advocates.

Australia’s rising taxes on tobacco should be frozen or scrapped in order to bring a booming black market – blamed for arson ...

Criminal syndicates have called a truce over tobacco shops in one area of Melbourne as experts declare our crime-fighting ...

The Biden White House is expected to formally propose a plan ordering cigarette nicotine levels to be reduced dramatically.

The Biden administration never finalized a ban on menthol cigarettes, and the Trump administration withdrew the proposal. The American Lung Association is criticizing Biden's inaction.

But avoiding that pitfall by mandating an immediate cut to a negligible nicotine level would magnify the black-market effects of de facto cigarette prohibition. Given the disastrous results of the ...

The Trump administrations removed FDA's plan to ban menthol cigarettes. The Biden administration did not finalize the rule amid opposition.

Smoking particularly fell rapidly among the lowest socio-economic quintile in New Zealand, which also had higher rates of ...

Menthols have been heavily marketed to Black people for decades and even today, the vast majority of Black smokers use menthols.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure to cut cigarette taxes to reduce Australia’s booming tobacco black market.

Black Americans, a key voting block, smoke disproportionately more menthol cigarettes than other racial and ethnic groups, and many groups lobbied against the ban. While the Food and Drug ...