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 ...

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 ...

Current smoking, use of sedative hypnotics and dyspnea increased the risk for death by suicide or drug overdose among adults with a smoking history with or without COPD, according to study results ...

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 ...

As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

Dropping pack-years for lung cancer screening eligibility in favor of a simpler 20-year history of smoking could substantially increase the number of cancers detected and eliminate racial disparities ...

Here it is—everything you ever wanted to know about tobacco, from Amerindian prehistory right up to the Clinton/Lewinsky cigar tryst. As Gately traces the role of tobacco in history's major military ...