Cigar

Chinese county encourages smoking

Health & Medicine

A county in south central China isn’t encouraging people there to stop smoking; in fact, it’s ordering public workers to smoke.

The link between smoking and darker skin

Health & Medicine

Cartoon Slideshow: Obama Wins, Now What?

Global Satire

Music From the Cuban Land of Tobacco Fields

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

California Smoke-Out

The World

The end of ‘light’ cigarettes

Health & Medicine

Congress included a new rule in a tobacco bill last year banning the use of misleading terms like ‘light,’ ‘mild,’ or ‘low’ in cigarette marketing. However, tobacco companies are finding all sorts of creative ways around the rule.

The World

David Michaels

Epidemiologist and former Assistant Secretary of Energy David Michaels talks about his new book , in which he describes the rise of “mercenary scientists” and “product defense” firms.