A bill under consideration by the city's Board of Supervisors would ban smoking in private dwellings located in apartment buildings with three or more units.
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Different types of nicotine consumption pose different amounts of risk.
We've got a lot of problems with you people.
More than half of cigarettes consumed in the state are smuggled from elsewhere, thanks to high taxes.
The government and the press focus on newfangled contraptions instead of drug-related harm.
The Science article is a wake-up call for people who claim to be concerned about smoking-related disease and death.
The agency’s indifference between smoking and vaping is scientifically indefensible.
The ban's supporters falsely claim that "a whole generation of young people" is "addicted to these products."
An analysis of survey data finds that pre-existing differences entirely explain the association between e-cigarette use and current smoking among teenagers.
Pantaleo's lawyer says it’s “arbitrary and capricious” to fire a cop for choking a guy over black market cigarettes.
The FDA finally has agreed to allow a mild statement about the relative hazards of snus and cigarettes.
H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." The rub against vaping, and other smokeless tobacco products, is that people enjoy it.
"Vaping is a health miracle to me," said ex-smoker Vicki Porter. "Not safe, but less harmful."
His death resulted from a violent confrontation that never should have happened.
The same federal agency that has led a crackdown on vaping is now trying to make smoking even less appealing.
Chanters demand NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo's firing.
A study suggesting that e-cigarettes double the risk of a heart attack ignored crucial information on timing.
Wednesday marks five years since an officer’s deadly chokehold was captured on video.
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Even as the FDA continues to crack-down on vaping, it appears ready to allow snus to be sold as what it is: a safer alternative to smoking.
Sen. Richard Burr raises an interesting point about onerous regulation, but his argument is baffling.
Styrofoam bans, cigarette restrictions, and Uber taxes are just some of the regulations New Yorkers will have to contend with in 2019.
The city's Staple Food Ordinance mandates that stores carry products customers don't want.
Don't blame smokers for cigarette butts on the street. Blame the policies that pushed them to smoke there.
High tobacco taxes neither raise revenue nor discourage smoking.
People will find sources for what they want no matter what presumptuous regulators say.
Everything we do entails risk. The question is our tolerance for it.
An FDA-sponsored report confirms the harm-reducing potential of vaping yet worries, implausibly, that it will boost adolescent smoking.
Keeping up with New York regulations is enough to shut down some businesses.
Past-month cigarette use by high school seniors has fallen by 73 percent since 1997.
A new critique of the surgeon general's report on e-cigarettes puts underage use in perspective.
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
If "light" cigarettes were a scam, how can "nonaddictive" cigarettes be a boon?
Embracing harm reduction, the agency's new head tries to make e-cigarette regulations less onerous.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb extends a crucial application deadline by four years and promises "a greater awareness" of vaping's health advantages.
Quit rates rose with e-cigarette sales, and vapers are more likely to stop smoking.
Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
