Under the health law, insurers who sell plans on the individual market can take into account only four factors when determining someone’s premium: age, geographic location, family size and tobacco use. People who use tobacco can be charged up…
Citing efforts “to make the next generation tobacco-free,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules Thursday for e-cigarettes that would regulate the devices in a manner similar to traditional cigarettes. The new rule would require manufacturers of…
CVS, the nation’s second-largest drug store chain, has announced that it will stop selling tobacco products because they pose a conflict with the health mission of the business. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Dr. Ronald Depinho of the M.D. Anderson…
We take American smoking rates 50 years after the landmark Surgeon General's report.
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ATF head Jones reflects on agency's outdated technology, system vulnerabilities…
ATF Director Todd Jones says agency inhibited by fear mongering over a national registry…
Ray Suarez wraps up his reporting trip to China on global health issues with a discussion about the health challenges facing the country's growing middle class.
// It was interesting, kind of retro, to be in a country where so many people still light up, where so many stores were selling cigarettes, and the telltale odor of smoke, or a just-stubbed out butt, seemed ever present.
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