The law giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products requires that it base decisions on science, including proposals to reduce the harm caused to those who ...

The study of tobacco has been the life-long focus of his research and now, Peter Shields, M.D., deputy director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center, has ...

"Doubt is our product," stated a tobacco industry memo from 1969. For half a century, the tobacco industry tried to muddy the link between smoking and cancer. Now, with that effort long since failed, ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

The new study aimed to understand the extent to which the public trusts PMI (the manufacturer of Marlboro) and their involvement in science and research. Philip Morris International (PMI) – considered ...

Among a generation of kids ranging from today’s 15-year-olds to babies only now being contemplated, shifting the minimum legal age for tobacco purchases from 18 to 21 across the United States now ...

Scientists found that people who use both cannabis and tobacco show a distinct brain pattern tied to mood and stress regulation. Their scans revealed higher levels of an enzyme that reduces a natural ...

P Boyle, N Gray, J Henningfield, J Seffrin and W Zatonski (editors) Publisher: Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-19-852687-3. £69.50 Tobacco: Science, Policy and Public health is a major reference ...

The official, Matt Holman, was chief of the office of science in the agency’s Center for Tobacco Products. In a memo to staff Tuesday, Brian King, the center’s director, wrote that Holman had ...

In a landmark ruling nearly a decade ago, a federal judge ordered tobacco companies to stop lying. After listening to 84 witnesses and perusing tens of thousands of exhibits, U.S. District Judge ...

After years of decline, the rate of smokeless tobacco use among young people has leveled off, new research shows. In 2011, 5.2% of middle school and high school students in the U.S. reported using ...