WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Thursday will lay out its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which have taken a disproportionate toll on Black smokers and other ...

California’s attorney general is warning two tobacco companies that their new cigarettes appear to violate a state ban on most flavored tobacco products that was upheld by voters last year. Attorney ...

When COVID-19 struck, America was awakened to the pervasive racial and ethnic health disparities that have long-fractured our health care system. Black and brown Americans were disproportionately ...

A new study on mentholated cigarette use in the U.S. has found an increase in menthol cigarette smoking among young adults and concludes that efforts to reduce smoking likely are being thwarted by the ...

Joe Camel — R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's smirking, saxophone-playing cartoon advertising creation — took his last puff in 1997 after taking heat from then-President Bill Clinton and a long list of ...