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October 12, 2012 / The Associated Press / Columbia, S.C. – Clemson University, which spent millions helping farmers grow tobacco and was famed for tobacco-spitting football coach Danny Ford, is banning all tobacco products both indoors and outdoors within two years. Clemson... Read More

October 11, 2012 / Bloomberg BusinessWeek / — Cigarette makers including Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) and British American Tobacco Plc (BATS) are fighting a last-ditch battle against a smoking crackdown in Russia, with three weeks left to change the government’s... Read More

September 28, 2012 / Minnesota Post / — The incidence of onscreen smoking in movies increased from 2010 to 2011, ending what had been a five-year decline, according to a new study published Thursday by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco’s... Read More

The following article, excerpted here, was published in the Wall Street Journal. You can read the entire article at the WSJ website but you may need a subscription. What’s Really in Your Cigarette? by Robert N. Proctor August 31, 2012 / Wall Street Journal / — There... Read More

September 4, 2012 / New York Daily News / – If you’re relying on electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) as a safer alternative to smoking, a new study finds that they may still be causing harm to your lungs. E-cigarettes, which release a vaporized dose of liquid... Read More

The following article, excerpted here, was published in the Wall Street Journal. You can read the entire article at the WSJ website but you may need a subscription. What’s Really in Your Cigarette? by Robert N. Proctor August 31, 2012 / Wall Street Journal / — There... Read More

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz announced this week that Saudi Arabia will begin enforcing the royal decree banning smoking in public places effective immediately. Under the official order, smoking,... Read More

June 10, 2012 / Associated Press / Lawrence, KS  — Kansas lawmakers have decided that electronic cigarettes should be just as off-limits to people younger than 18 as the real thing, so starting July 1 it will be illegal for minors to buy or possess the vapor-emitting... Read More

June 5, 2012 / USA Today Travel / — Want to light up a cigarette before or after your next flight? Good luck with that.  According to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, indoor smoking is completely banned at 27 of the 35 busiest U.S. airports.  Soon it will... Read More

May 31, 2012 /Businessweek/ —  Cigarette makers led by Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) (PM) and British American Tobacco Plc (BATS) are scrambling to derail Russian plans to halve smoking in the world’s largest tobacco market after China. The companies, along with... Read More