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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.
ALABAMA A new law allowing only the sale of 34 tobacco and menthol-flavored e-cigarette products approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was set to take effect June 1.
NATIONAL REPORT — Selling tobacco and nicotine products is the antithesis of a simple task. Nobody out there is setting the price of a pack and calling it a day. You can't put a price tag on a ...
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 ...
Junk food brands like Oreo, Ritz, Miracle Whip and Oscar Meyer were once owned by tobacco companies who introduced hyper-palatable items to the American food chain.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Starting next week, it will cost you more in Illinois to buy tobacco and nicotine products. Taxes on vapes, nicotine pouches and other tobacco products will increase July 1.
Commercial tobacco use is literally killing people who are living with mental illness, but they’re not getting the help they need to kick the habit. People with serious mental illness live on ...
A growing number of retailers have implemented policies that require anyone looking to buy alcohol or tobacco be carded, no matter the age, and their ID scanned.
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.
S. Kessel Scheider et al. Community restrictions in youth smoking after raising the minimum tobacco sales age to 21. Tobacco Control. Vol. 25, May 2016, p. 355. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014 ...