Premium Cigars Escape FDA Regulation for Now
The FDA failed to consider whether premium cigars warranted a different regulatory approach than cigarettes.
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Massachusetts' Tobacco Ban Went as Badly as You'd Expect
And now the state thinks it needs to crack down even more.
Biden's Anti-Vaping Policies Undermine Cancer Moonshot
To reduce cancer deaths, Biden should stop restricting safer nicotine alternatives.
Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business
You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.
Raise a Glass and Donate to Reason To Keep the Prohibitionists From Winning
Your tax-deductible support helps us make the case against today's overbearing nanny state.
Will Californians Overrule the State's Intrusive Flavored Tobacco Ban?
Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.
California Lawmakers Are Being Hypocritical About 'Harm Reduction' Policies
The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?
In a Surprise Move, the FDA Denies Approval for Juul Tobacco and Menthol Vapes
What was once a classic Silicon Valley success story has become the victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine.
Mandating Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Could Make Smoking More Dangerous
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California Is Forcing Smokers To Buy More Dangerous Products
Banning less harmful tobacco alternatives is not a way to improve public health.
FDA Case for Menthol Ban Undermined by New Study
Menthols aren’t harder to quit than other cigarettes.
Two More California Cities Preparing To Ban Flavored Tobacco and Vape Products
After San Francisco approved a similar ban, teen smoking rates increased.
The FDA Is Set To Unintentionally Push Quitters Back to Smoking
Instead of trusting the science, the FDA will treat adults like children.
Anti-Tobacco Scientists Warn Benefits of E-Cigarettes Are Being Lost
Government and the media aren't paying attention to the relative benefits of vaping over smoking tobacco.
Cigars Aren't Cigarettes. A New Bill Proposes That the FDA Regulate Them Accordingly.
A bipartisan bill in Congress seeks to get the FDA out of the premium cigar industry.
Teen Cigarette Smoking Went Up Following Flavored Tobacco Ban
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A Ban on Menthol Cigarettes Will Lead to More Confrontations Between Black People and Police
If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem.
The FDA's War on Nicotine Will Encourage Americans To Smoke More Cigarettes
America's public health officials continue to undermine public health.
Menthol Cigarette Bans Will Fail Like Every Other Prohibition Scheme
The winners in every battle over restrictions are the people who do whatever they please without regard for government officials.
This California City Will Let the Neighbors Sue You for Vaping on Your Own Balcony
Concord's ban on smoking and vaping in private apartments allows residents to take civil action against their neighbors for violating the policy.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Passes Ban on Smoking Tobacco, but Not Cannabis, in Private Apartments
Violators face fines of up to $1,000.
San Francisco Considers $1,000 Fines for People Smoking Tobacco or Cannabis in Their Apartments
A bill under consideration by the city's Board of Supervisors would ban smoking in private dwellings located in apartment buildings with three or more units.
Gaze Upon the Worst Anti-Vaping Poster Ever and Despair
The great state of New Jersey idiotically compares vaping to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.
How Truth Became a Casualty of the War on Smoking
Different types of nicotine consumption pose different amounts of risk.
Anti-Vaping Panic Will Kill More People Than it Saves
E-cigarettes are under attack, but they are a safer way to consume nicotine than conventional smoking, says Jacob Sullum.
How Vaping 'Might Just Save Your Life!'
In the panic to ban and regulate electronic cigarettes, media and politicians are ignoring the benefits of vaping.
House-Passed Budget Deal Raises Age To Buy Cigarettes to 21
The legislation would also prevent those under 21 from purchasing vaping products.
The Vaping Crisis Is a Moral Panic Led by Anti-Smoking Crusaders
Anti-smoking advocacy groups have a long history of exploiting shoddy science for political gain.
San Francisco's Top Economist Confirms Vape Ban Means More Smoking
The city is banning e-cigarettes while actual cigarettes remain legal.
Senate Bill Would Ban Smoking and Vaping for Americans Under Age 21
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Hawaii State Bill Would Raise Smoking Age to 100 by 2024
Rep. Richard Creagan declares cigarette sales the moral equivalent of slavery and murder.
Scott Gottlieb's FDA Is Moving Toward a Stealth Ban on Cigarettes and Cigars
The Food and Drug Administration can't ban cigarettes outright. But the agency appears to be planning a workaround.
Same D.C. City Council Members Who Want to Lower the Voting Age to 16 Also Voted to Raise City's Smoking Age to 21
We'll trust teenagers with decisions about how to run the country, but not how to run their own lives.
National Ban on Smoking in Public Housing Is Unconstitutional, Lawsuit Says
Tenants are challenging a HUD rule that requires local public housing authorities across the country to prohibit people from smoking in their homes.
Some California Cities Are Making It Harder to Quit Smoking
Bans of flavored tobacco products end up leaving smokers with few options for kicking the habit, and do little to improve public health.
Smoking While Walking? That's a $50 Fine Under Proposed NYC Ordinance
New York's smokers would be hit with yet another prohibition.
Girl Scouts Write Anti-Smoking Legislation in Colorado
A government for the children, of the children, by the children.
8 States Let You Smoke Weed, But Massachusetts Might Be the First to Make it Easy
A proposal would allow the social consumption of cannabis.
Menthol Cigarette Bans Sweep the Nation
Politicians should butt out of people's personal habits.
New Jersey Set To Ban Flavored Vaping Fluid, Protecting Kids From Something They Can't Buy Anyway
If you want to vape, it has to taste terrible and cost full price.