RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Star Scientific Inc. plans to stop making and selling its dissolvable smokeless tobacco products at the end of the year and instead focus on its dietary supplement business ...

Tobacco stocks have a bad reputation. Investors with a particular set of ethics tend to veer away from them because the companies’ products are known to be detrimental to people’s health ...

Banning cigarette filters would remove the illusion of safety from filtered cigarettes. It could reduce smoking prevalence, as unfiltered cigarettes are generally harsher and less palatable. And it ...

Cigarette filters don’t make smoking safer — they may even make it more dangerous. Yet these plastic butts are the world’s most littered item, dumping 800,000 metric tons of waste each year. Experts ...

Born after Jan. 1, 2006? You may never be able to buy tobacco or nicotine products in Massachusetts.

We can now conclude that the strategy of taxing and banning nicotine addiction out of existence is a complete failure. The ...

Self-service cigarette racks may soon disappear from stores in Montgomery County, making the county the first in the state to require stores to keep tobacco products out of the reach of minors.