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The FDA issued warning letters to five electronic cigarette distributors, saying the products are being marketed illegally as safer alternatives to smoking and even as smoking-cessation aids. The agency says they must seek FDA approval in order to continue making those claims.

In an effort to reduce smoking, governments worldwide are raising their tobacco taxes: In New York City, a pack of cigarettes now costs more than $10. But do higher taxes, which mean higher prices, actually deter smokers?

With the New York legislature approving new taxes on tobacco products as part of a emergency state spending plug this week, the average cost of a pack of cigarettes in New York City could go to $11 starting July 1 -- the highest in the country. The tax on smokeless tobacco also is going up to $2...

In an attempt to dispel the myth that some cigarettes are less harmful than others, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has prohibited tobacco companies from labeling cigarettes as "light" or "ultra light." But companies can get around these new rules with well-established color coding.

Supreme Court Justices challenged arguments from lawyers trying to keep private signatures on a petition to repeal a Washington domestic-partners law. Also in this roundup of legal news: The first genetic discrimination suit and Wal-Mart's settlement of wage charges.

Where there's smoke, there usually is a fine. But not this time. In a case that could have had implications for real estate agents and sellers in Massachusetts and potentially nationally, a jury recently rejected a condominium owner's lawsuit in which she asserted that her downstairs neighbor's...

Nobody is paying me to say this: If I ever meet the person who invented Chantix, the anti-smoking medicine, I may have to give him or her a hug. If we ever have another child, I think we have a name picked out (well, maybe the middle name). If I were a dying billionaire and Chantix were a person,...

Inhale... Finesse the filter on the tips of your fingers like a freshly-peeled grape... Now exhale and watch the plume twist and curl like outline of a nubile feminine figure... Smoking is sexy. No matter how you respond to that assertion, the majority of young people who initially reach for a...

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...