Mocksville businessman and convicted felon Calvin Phelps was sentenced Monday to a little more than three years in prison and ordered to pay $5.1 million in restitution during his sentencing hearing a U.S. District Court judge in Mississippi. The sentencing...

Brownsville has been the non-smoking section of the Rio Grande Valley for more than a year now and a city health official suggested that the ban against smoking inside restaurants and bars has now become accepted as the norm here in southern Cameron County....

A smokers’ group sued Tuesday to snuff out the city’s new ban on e-cigarettes in restaurants, bars, and everywhere else regular smokes are banned. The group, Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, charged in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme...

Use of nicotine patches, compared with placebo patches, does not increase the smoking cessation rate among pregnant women, according to research published March 11 in BMJ. FRIDAY, March 14, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Use of nicotine patches, compared with...

Smokers are quickly running out of places to light up. Earlier this week, Rehoboth became the last of Delaware's major ocean resorts to ban smoking on its beaches, adding in a boardwalk ban for good measure. On the same day, the University of Delaware...

“Passive smoking causes lasting damage to children’s arteries, prematurely ageing their blood vessels by more than three years,” BBC News reports. The news is based on emerging evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke damages children’s arteries. This...

The power of packaging is twice as likely as celebrities to influence children (40 per cent vs 20 per cent) when they think about buying a product, according to a new YouGov survey* - boosting the argument for putting tobacco in plain standardised packs...