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Voters in St. Louis County recently passed a ban on smoking in most public places, and that has folks pushing for a similar ban in Cape Girardeau excited.

If you have a chronic lung disease like COPD, you most likely have to see your doctor more often.

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.

Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people quit smoking, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The University of Montana is proposing a campus-wide ban on all forms of tobacco that would take effect in the fall of 2011.

One thing about Scott Rothstein is that people who know -- or knew -- him best will tell you that he lies as naturally as he breathes .

Mobile phones are the new cigarettes. Not when it comes to cancer, of course. That's still unproven, according to mobile phone companies which have much deeper pockets than this humble scribe.

Over the past few years the debate over this common weed has grown more and more intense, and the fact is there are an incredible amount of myths and downright lies out there about marijuana, both supporting making it legal and opposed to it.

A sharply divided Waco City Council on Tuesday voted to tighten city smoking ordinances after hitting a 3-3 deadlock on a more comprehensive smoking ban.

In an October 27, 2009 press release, 22nd Century summarized some clinical trial results of using very low nicotine cigarettes for smoking cessation, including one study led by Dr.

To The Daily : Some members of the Decatur City Council still fail to understand the reason behind the smoking ban: Reducing second-hand smoke in public places allows the citizens of Decatur to live longer.

North Carolina has launched a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels to kick the smoking habit for good.

"Sprayed its air first with propylene glycol, then with influenza virus. All the mice lived.

Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 As the debate heats up concerning the use of electronic cigarettes, Electronic Cigarette Association President Matt Salmon today encouraged those involved in this discussion to carefully and honestly study how these devices work and ...

Lung cancer is the largest single cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Smoking is still the single leading risk for lung cancer.

Editor's Choice Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Also Included In: Smoking / Quit Smoking ; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports that smoking during pregnancy considerably increases the risk of having a child with ...

A panel of international medical experts has found a link between exposure to second-hand smoke and breast cancer in pre-menopausal women.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : Warning letters have been sent to companies using Web sites to sell illegal flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s bid to carve out a "free speech" marketing niche for innovative products received a setback yesterday.

The Food and Drug Administration, a federal regulatory agency perpetually in search of new products to regulate and new jurisdiction to conquer, last June received the gift it had coveted for decades.A On June 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act," which gave the FDA legal power to ...