The recently approved state operating budget will permit Summit County to put a cigarette tax on the ballot for voters to decide. If passed, the tax could be used to provide funds for local arts ...

France has become the first European country to ban smoking on all beaches and in parks nationwide. The sweeping measure is part of President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to create “the first ...

Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride discuss filming in Spain, and we get some new looks at The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3.

Does that mean you should run to the store and pick up a pack of cigarettes? Absolutely not. Please don’t do that. Smoking can be absolutely deadly, but nicotine isolated from the deadly elements in ...

Smoking cigarettes is deadly, should be avoided and imposes widespread financial costs. Tobacco use claims the lives of around 11,700 Georgians per year and is responsible for around $3.2 billion of ...

Two weeks ago on Saturday, June 14, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home.

New UC Davis study finds that illegal disposable e-cigarettes contain hazardous levels of toxic metals like lead and nickel, presenting a higher cancer risk than cigarettes.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on Friday. Hortman, her husband, and their dog were killed in a June 14 attack.

ABC News' Peter Jennings died in August 2005. His son, Chris, writes and essay in which he talks about his relationship with his father and their efforts to quit smoking.