smoking ban

A new nationwide poll finds that two-thirds of U.S. voters support a $1 increase in tobacco taxes per pack. The tax could raise more than $9.1 billion in new annual revenue for states, says the report released by a coalition of public health organizations claims.

As the economy slowly recovers, employers may expand a program to job candidates that has mostly been applied to the current workforce: health screenings. A test for nicotine, for example, can determine if a job applicant smokes and remove them from the job candidate pool as a way to ultimately...

A major tax increase on loose cigarette tobacco has caused pipe tobacco sales to surge dramatically this year. Historically, the tobacco industry manufactured around 270,000 pounds of pipe tobacco per month. Yet, in April, it hit 566,000 pounds, ultimately skyrocketing to 1.7 million pounds in...

New York has long been unfriendly to smokers, particularly with the ban instituted in 2003. This year, however, a renewed effort to curb tobacco sales could translate to a negative financial impact on a city that has already felt the effects of downturns in media, finance and travel...

Nonsmokers who travel often find themselves frustrated once they unlock the car they've just rented at the airport. After a few hours of lounges, gates, and airborne cabins mercifully free of secondhand smoke, travelers slide behind the wheel and wonder how nobody at the rental agency has noticed...

Second only to "last call, Ms. Handler," it's the most common refrain among bar and club owners: "Smoking bans hurt business." As a non-smoker, I love being able to come home after drinks without stinking like Patty Bouvier, but bar owners have claimed that indoor smoking bans, where they exist,...

Recently, a smoking ban in Minnesota was amended to allow smoking on stage during plays. Seems innocent enough, right? Well, bars in the state were quick to take advantage of the opening, declaring their bars were actually stages and all customers were actors.One promoter interviewed by the paper...