Tobacco

The CEO of AI startup Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has cautioned that artificial intelligence companies must be open and honest about the potential dangers posed by their products, or risk repeating the mistakes made by Big Tobacco and opioid companies.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that federal agents had carried out nationwide raids to seize Chinese-made vape products, warning that such operations mark the beginning of a broader crackdown.

In the coming days, smoking will be banned in all French parks and sports venues, at beaches and bus stops, in a perimeter around all schools, and anywhere children could gather in public.

The House-passed reconciliation bill contains a buried tax on tobacco, and President Donald Trump has endorsed the Senate’s ability to make changes to the mammoth legislation.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed Thursday reports that his government is considering plans to ban smoking in outdoor spaces such as pub gardens in a nanny state-style intervention.

The United Kingdom is to phase out smoking altogether, the government says, by banning young people from buying cigarettes at all.

Tobacco giant fined $635.2 million by the U.S. for breaking sanction rules to sell product to North Korea over a ten-year period. 

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is developing a policy that could ban people from smoking in their own apartments.

A raid on an illegal tobacco factory in Spain found 10 Ukrainians who were being exploited, a Spanish Civil Guard spokesperson said Monday.

New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday that effectively phases out legal tobacco use over the next generation by banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009.

JUUL Labs Inc. can no longer sell or distribute its products in the United States after receiving a marketing denial order from the FDA.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday said it is time to hold smokers to account for polluting the planet and “leaving mountains of waste to drive global warming.”

Authorities have arrested two men for allegedly attempting to fly cell phones into a Virginia prison using a drone. 

A Navajo who studies the use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and chewing tobacco by Native Americans commented on the Navajo Nation’s permanent ban on the sale of tobacco, a product first cultivated by Native Americans but was “colonized” by white farmers.

A plan by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) would notify federal immigration officials when illegal aliens attempt to purchase firearms. 

San Francisco has banned smoking tobacco inside apartments due to secondhand smoke concerns but residents are still allowed to smoke pot.

The sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes, menthol rolling tobacco and capsule cigarettes have been banned in the UK under an EU directive.

Trump indicated that he would sign the $738 billion spending bill, which includes a slew of other legislative priorities for both Republicans and Democrats.

A decision to impose a 100 percent tax on bills at restaurants that serve shisha has ignited criticism on social media in Saudi Arabia, where the water pipes are a popular pastime.

After a scathing report published by the anti-tobacco Truth Initiative organization, Netflix has publicly committed to reducing on-screen smoking.

Nanny State Australia has stepped into the breach to rescue Nanny State Britain with some free pictures of people dying of cancer and heart disease to put on the side of cigarette packets in case of a No Deal Brexit.

For the first time since wartime restrictions were finally lifted in 1954, the British government is planning a return to rationing.

The index of tobacco stocks jumped by 4.9 percent on Wednesday after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators threatened to ban retail sales of “e-cigs” if manufacturers do not control their rampant use by teens.

A New York City councilman introduced a bill that would make it illegal to smoke while walking in the city’s latest attempt to wage war on smoking.

Mammoth tobacco-fueled corporation Philip Morris announced that they are “trying to give up cigarettes.”

Pope Francis has issued his personal version of “Thank you for not smoking,” announcing a ban on the sale of cigarettes in the Vatican to go into effect in 2018.

Beginning November 1, cigarettes and other tobacco products will disappear from the shelves of stores in dozens of military bases around the country as the army steps up its fight against smoking, the Israel Defense Force’s manpower chief said Sunday.

New York City is now the most expensive place in the U.S. to buy cigarettes thanks to a new price hike Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Monday.

Authorities believe that one of the alleged drug traffickers –Raul Enrique Lizarraga Lopez, aka “Maestro” – is a key player in the drug cartel that smuggles narcotics from Mexico into the United States.

Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives smuggled tens of millions of dollars from cigarette sales into a secret bank account in an operation not authorized by the Justice Department.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic is one step away from losing its status of one of the last havens for tobacco smokers in Europe.

Unfiltered. That’s one of many ways to describe Lenny Dykstra. The former Mets and Phillies star does not mince words. Instead he uses them any which way they happen to come out.

Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen, was a licensed and armed security guard for a multinational security company that had the Department of Homeland Security contracts to transport illegal alien caught by US Border Patrol agents.

Plain packaging of cigarettes is to be introduced in the UK tomorrow, following the failure of leading tobacco firms to challenge the legislation in the UK’s High Court today. Packs of ten cigarettes will also disappear from the nations shelves

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.

Seita, the French subsidiary of Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and the maker of the iconic Gauloises and Gitanes cigarettes, said Tuesday it would appeal to France’s top court against regulations imposing plain packaging. The appeal to the Council of State, France’s