Women Harder to Quit Smoking
Women tend to find it harder to quit smoking than men, and a new study suggests why — women’s brains respond differently to nicotine, the researchers say. When a person...
Tobacco Growers Poor Due To Cigarettes Tax
For the past 17 years, farmer Bernadette Guya wakes up around 4 a.m. and works for the next 12 hours tending tobacco plants in a one-hectare leased plot in the...
Tobacco Ads Legislation is Not Ruled Correctly
A federal judge has struck down a provision of a local tobacco control ordinance that bans outdoor advertising of tobacco products within the city. In a 23-page decision released yesterday,...
Cigarettes Sales, New Attempt to Discourage Smoking
New efforts to enforce a prohibition on the tobacco products sale took a favorable hit recently when a federal judge struck down a Worcester law banning storefront signs that promotes...