anti-smoking

New York has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country.  Now that anti-smoking sentiment in the Big Apple includes cannabis smoke, at least in some parts of the city. Apparently, there have been so many complaints about the smell of marijuana smoke in Times Square that...

Impurity concerns have prompted Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) to pull another four Chantix lots in the U.S., bringing up to 16 batches of its total recall.  The latest action covers a quartet of 0.5/1-mg tablets, and as earlier Chantix recalls, this too stems from impurities...

“Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Philip Morris USA intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive” — according to new ads sponsored by Altria Group Inc (NYSE: MO) and British American Tobacco PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BTI). Yes, it’s strategically...

In February of this year, CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) made headlines –- and acclaim from anti-smoking activists –- when it announced the company would phase out the sale of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco in more than 7,600 drugstores by October 2014. Investors worried the...