ALBANY — Smokers will have to dig deeper as New York on Friday added another dollar to its cigarette tax, raising the total state tax to $5.35. It’s the nation’s highest and brings a pack of ...

NEW YORK -- U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, ...

Police authorities arrested six suspects and seized PHP15 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during a routine checkpoint ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Tuesday that he is suing the founders of an e-cigarette maker over his concerns that their product is being marketed to ...

New York will be the first state to require that all cigarettes be manufactured with paper that extinguishes itself if smokers don’t do the job, state officials said Wednesday. Advocates say the rules ...

New York City has the highest cigarette taxes in the nation, but Rutgers Health research indicates that many smokers ...

While we have all heard the recent push to eliminate plastic straws from popular use, the cigarette butt has largely lost in the shuffle despite being the biggest ocean contaminant. According to the ...

NEW YORK — About 3,700 New Yorkers who thought they had avoided a hefty $3-a-pack tax by buying their cigarettes online have found that the city has smoked them out. New York City’s Department of ...