tobacco

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban menthol cigarettes. He joined a bipartisan group of 23…

The president of Reynolds American Inc. is stepping down. Parent company British American Tobacco PLC announced Wednesday that Ricardo Oberlander will…

A new report gives North Carolina a failing grade for policies to reduce and prevent tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. The American Lung…

A new law sets the nationwide minimum age to buy tobacco products at 21. The law applies to cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, and vaping devices that heat…

The Food and Drug Administration will review whether one of R.J. Reynolds's electronic cigarettes can stay on the market. The Winston-Salem Journal…

Smoking has been in decline for decades, but tobacco remains a vital crop to much of the Southeast. North Carolina is the nation's largest grower and…

A plan to substantially increase taxes on vaping products in North Carolina initially received bipartisan support at the General Assembly last week before…

Vaping products would be taxed the same as traditional cigarettes under an amendment to a state Senate bill. Lawmakers have for years treated e-cigarettes…

Efforts to ban flavored e-cigarettes and reduce their appeal to youngsters have sputtered under industry pressure in over a half-dozen states this year…

Rapidly growing sales of hemp are poised to help North Carolina farmers that are still transitioning away from once-profitable tobacco plants. But they're…