The history of regulatory fights over tobacco products goes back to the earliest days of the U.S. What The Political History Of Tobacco In The US Means For E-Cigarettes The recent controversy around ...

Iain Gately, a British author, Cambridge scholar, and cigar smoker, has written a fascinating cultural history of tobacco use. In Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced ...

Think what you will about the merits of tobacco, but it has a rich, complex history, at least as told by London journalist Iain Gately, who confesses at the start of his fascinating book that he ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Tom Lee doesn’t want the Mountain Empire’s tobacco history to go up in smoke. That’s why this associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University has launched a ...

Half a century ago, faced with broadcast advertising bans stemming from overwhelming evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry used menthol cigarettes to secure new markets among Black ...

Cigarette maker Altria Group (NYSE: MO) is best known for its Marlboro brand, and under its current corporate structure, tobacco dominates its overall business. With the exception of a small wine ...

A tale of seduction and intimidation. Last summer Robert Proctor, a Stanford professor who studies the history of tobacco, was surprised to receive court papers accusing him of witness tampering and ...

It’s hardly surprising that a tobacco company would donate more money to Republican politicians than to Democrats, who are generally more amenable than GOPers to taxes and regulation. North Carolina’s ...