Low-tar cigarettes do not carry a lower risk of lung cancer, according to the first study comparing lung cancer deaths among smokers of ultra-light, mild and medium filtered cigarettes. The finding, ...

Labelling cigarette packets with tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide measurements is misleading and should be stopped, argue cancer experts in this week's BMJ. The tar delivery of cigarettes is ...

Although the major cancer-causing substance in cigarette tar has not yet been identified, so much is now known about it that smoking could be rendered relatively harmless—without waiting for the ...

Nowadays, people consume cigarettes and tobacco daily, sometimes due to fashion and sometimes due to habit, due to which the cases of oral and lung cancer are increasing rapidly. Smokeless Tobacco ...

In the last decade, sales of filter cigarettes have leaped from less than 1% to more than half of all U.S. cigarettes sold. Filters rescued the industry from a skid six years ago when the first cancer ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cigarette makers will no longer be able to use government guidance from 1966 to argue that U.S. authorities view cigarettes with less tar and nicotine as safer. The Federal ...

Eons before Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans cultivated the tobacco leaf for ceremonial activities and medicinal purposes for use during prayers and rituals. They presented the ...

More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine ...

A judge says cigarette labels such as "light," "ultra light" or "low tar" will no longer be permitted. Alan Blum of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society at the University of Alabama, offers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cigarette makers will no longer be able to use government guidance from 1966 to argue that U.S. authorities view cigarettes with less tar and nicotine as safer. The Federal ...