Tobacco News and Interesting Information

Trace Cyrus, former vocalist of the band Metro Station and brother to Miley Cyrus, announced his quest to "stop smoking" aided by electronic cigarettes from South Beach Smoke, a popular electronic cigarette company with connections to the Hollywood elite. Trace reportedly decided to make the switch from traditional cigarettes to electronic cigarettes for not only his health, but for the well-being of his girlfriend and popular actress from the Disney series "The Suite Life on Deck", Brenda Song. Electronic cigarettes do not produce second-hand smoke nor foul odors that bother and potentially harm most people including Song.

Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck. Cigarette packs in the U.S. will have to carry these macabre images in nine new warning labels that are part of a campaign by the Food and Drug Administration to use fear and disgust to discourage Americans from lighting up.

Two Native American tribes have lost a round in their court battle to block New York state from collecting cigarette taxes from reservation stores.

Nothing has changed in West Bengal in three decades, but the suburban and rural Bengali seems as contented as ever. Maybe that's why Mamata Banerjee is poised to win

Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc.'s net income grew nearly 13 percent in the first quarter because it sold more cigarettes at higher prices.