The new cigarettes are packed in colorful tins reminiscent of breath mints. They are named "Beach Breezer" and "Margarita Mixer," and they are laced with candy-flavored additives for kids, critics say. They're the new "exotic blend" cigarettes being sold under the Camel label by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ...

NEW YORK -- Standing behind a chest-high pile of more than 237,000 seized cigarettes, city officials said Monday they had cracked down on stores selling tobacco without a license. But smoker advocates say black-market sales will only grow in New York, where a tax hike has pushed cigarettes to $7.50 a pack and the mayor is waging a policy war against smoking. ...

In Iraq, Marines and soldiers face rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs and mortar attacks. As if that isn't enough, another danger stalks them, too, one that can't be stopped by even the best body armor. ...

There's Nicorette gum, and there's a pack-a-day smoking habit. And somewhere in between is Chuck Emery. He was a businessman in Phoenix, and he had an idea. Sell cigarettes, but sell them one at a time, in a plastic tube, for 39 cents a butt. Do that, and the convenience stores would eat it up. More than a thousand stores in eight states later, he was right. And now he's coming to Washington state ...

While monitoring the settlement negotiations between the State Attorneys General and the tobacco industry last summer and fall, and after analyzing the MSA last November, many public health and civil justice advocates concluded that the MSA provides far greater benefits for tobacco manufacturers than for public health. ...

MELBOURNE, Aug 29 AAP - Written health warnings on cigarette packets were becoming ineffective and should be replaced with gruesome photos of cancerous tissues, anti-smoking group ASH said today. ...

TO THE CHAGRIN of state officials, a Phoenix businessman has received permission to sell single cigarettes, at 39 cents each, in Washington. There's Nicorette gum, and there's a pack-a-day smoking habit. And somewhere in between is Chuck Emery. He was a businessman in Phoenix, and he had an idea. Sell cigarettes, but sell them one at a time, in a plastic tube, for 39 cents a butt. Do that, and the convenience stores would eat it up. More than a thousand stores in eight states later, he was right. ...

One of the most popular and valuable commodities in Colombia's contraband market is cigarettes, which have an inordinately high value for their weight, meaning they are relatively easy to move for a high profit, according to money launderers and smugglers. ...

Government policies on smoking have changed enormously over the past 50 years. And what was once a socially accepted behavior, freely enjoyed in public by close to half of Americans, is now frowned upon as a serious health risk, practiced increasingly in private. (Still, roughly one in three adults uses a tobacco product). Results of both governmental and private medical research on smoking have led to increased public awareness of the risks involved, and to increased government restrictions on the sale and use of tobacco. How do all these changes reflect public attitudes over the years, including the conflict between the risks of smoking and Americans' regard for personal freedom? ...

The claim is breathtaking. On Sept. 21 the U.S. Justice Dept. is scheduled to make opening arguments in a civil Racketeer-Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit asserting that the nation's biggest cigarette companies have engaged in an illegal conspiracy since 1953. The government is seeking disgorgement of a brow-raising $280 billion -- almost the six defendant companies' entire profits during the five-decade period. ...