CHART, headquartered in Nashville, is a committee of 50 health organizations, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society among them, formed to discourage tobacco use in Tennessee.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A prominent Singapore businessman has said he will exit his investment in a tobacco firm linked to the Myanmar military, after the army deposed the country's democratically ...

Food producers owned by tobacco companies like Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds developed a disproportionately high number of what scientists call "hyper-palatable" foods between 1988 and 2001, a ...

In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America’s food supply and reap ...

By Jacob Bogage The Washington Post,Updated June 20, 2025, 9:46 a.m. A laborer works in a tobacco field on land on July 28, 2016, in Albertson, N.C. Matt McClain/The Washington Post ...

The FDA stayed busy between 2010 and 2020, conducting more than a million inspections to look for underage sales and getting to about 74% of the 360,000 stores that sell tobacco products in the US ...

Most tobacco products other than cigarettes, including cigars and chewing tobacco, will also be taxed at 45% of the wholesale price, up from a 36% levy that’s been in place for more than a decade.

Philip Morris , British American Tobacco , and Japan Tobacco will pay C$32.5 billion ($23.6 billion) to settle a long-running tobacco lawsuit in Canada, as part of a court-appointed mediator's ...

For those not familiar with tobacco harvesting, there were several phases or jobs, all physical. The first job was to remove the suckers that grew on the plant after it was topped. That’s when ...

Taxes on vapes, nicotine pouches, and other tobacco products will increase in Illinois July 1. Right now, it is not exactly clear how the tax will be passed onto the consumer.

Nearly one in 10 of California's 10th and 12th graders have heard of heated tobacco products, with the vast majority saying they first learned about them from the internet or social media ...

Tobacco-funded research is still appearing in highly-cited medical journals - despite attempts by some to cut ties altogether, finds an investigation by The Investigative Desk and The BMJ today.