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A 2022 law allows local governments to create smoking zones and fines, enact stricter laws on butt disposal and outright bans. Cities and counties previously lacked that authority.

The head of the FDA's tobacco center promised to deliver a five-year strategic plan by year’s end outlining agency priorities. The FDA is responding to criticisms that its mission has been hampered by a lack of direction.

The law states tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, although it means the minimum age will keep going up and up. The goal is to make New Zealand smoke-free by 2025.

A smoker's estate went to the high court after the 5th District Court of Appeal overturned a decision by an Orange County jury to award $16 million, calling the amount “excessive.”

A South Florida appellate court has upheld a $7.25 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a case filed by a man who smoked two packs of…

In a case stemming from the death of a woman who smoked for more than 30 years, a South Florida appeals court Wednesday overturned a $7.1 million verdict…

The Food and Drug Administration exercised its regulatory power to compel a tobacco company to stop selling cigarettes after the maker failed to show they don't raise new public health issues.

Unless a cigarette is safer than others, it can't be labeled "natural" or "additive-free," the Food and Drug Administration told three manufacturers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new ally in its graphic anti-smoking campaign.Even though the CDC's “Tips from Former Smokers” ads…