smoking

After a 2012 attempt went up in smoke, California finally got around to vote for a measure that could curb smoking and tobacco consumption. Voters in the state supported a $2 tax on each pack of cigarettes, other tobacco products and e-cigarettes. This would bring up the taxes on a pack of...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made it clear to retailers and sellers of e-cigarette products that it is illegal to sell these types of products to anyone under the age of 18. The FDA said on Thursday it will now take action against sellers of e-cigarette, e-liquids, cigars, hookah...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)'s Chantix is a prescription medication that helps adults 18 years and older quit smoking. The drug has been linked with reports of mental health problems, risk of suicide, depression and death in users, which prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue...

Smokers, pay attention: Your habit is not only dangerous to your health; it could put a damper on your retirement plans. Fool.com's Selena Maranjian explored the relationship between smoking and retirement, and it is frightening. Consider that the average retail price of a pack of cigarettes was...

In February of this year, CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) made headlines –- and acclaim from anti-smoking activists –- when it announced the company would phase out the sale of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco in more than 7,600 drugstores by October 2014. Investors worried the...

So, who's next? Now that CVS (NYSE: CVS), the nation's second-largest drugstore chain, has announced it will phase out the sale of tobacco products at its stores by October of this year, consumers and investors are watching to see which retail chain will be next to fall in line and ban cigars,...