Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13 billion Kent Micronite cigarette filters, manufactured from March 1952 ...

In 1966, the first warning label appeared on the side of cigarette packs in the United States. Stating “Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health,” it was also the first such warning ...

Observing that ""the cigarette is the only consumer product that, when used as the manufacturer has intended, can be deadly,"" Wall Street Journal reporter Parker-Pope writes an absorbing and ...

Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the nonsmoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build ...

The history of medicine is a winding road paved with both triumphs and missteps, and one place in California aims to preserve this legacy. Sacramento’s California Pharmacy Museum offers a unique look ...

Uptown was a mentholated cigarette brand designed and targeted to African American smokers by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1989. A coalition of Black community leaders in Philadelphia fought ...

This feature dwells not so much on the economic benefits that the tobacco industry brought to the Maltese islands, and more on the health problems it created, which in themselves are high social and ...

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Barry Manilow has been open about his history of smoking cigarettes, which began when he was 9 years old. His quotes amid his battle with lung cancer ...