Lerner tells readers at the outset of her book that she and her mother never were close and that, back when she was a deliberately lumpen 1970s teenager ... the Bridge Ladies smoking marijuana ...

It’s been four decades since President Nixon signed the bill that banned cigarette commercials from U.S. airwaves, but millions of Baby Boomers can still hum the “Winston tastes good” jingle.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s Camel brand of cigarettes is sponsoring a three-night smoking spa inside a SoHo bar, where women can kick back and light up while getting manicures and blowouts.

I had looked forward to my 50th high school reunion for months. Who would attend? What would I wear? What would they wear?

Experts say the 44% rise is a legacy of the 1970s, when many women took up smoking. Professor Caroline Dive, from the UK Manchester Institute run by Cancer Research UK which issued the statistics ...

Between the 1940s and the 1970s, the U.S. smoking rate remained relatively stable with about two in five adults saying they smoked a cigarette in the past week. It reached a peak of 45 percent in ...

It was the early 1970s, and warnings of the danger of smoking were in the news. My dad was a lifelong smoker and our family was ready for him to stop. I had heard that a way to help the smoker was ...