by Agnes Howard | Jun 5, 2019 | Opinion
Someday, soon perhaps, the Juul electronic cigarette will pass into the heap of cast-off youth fads, and we may breathe sighs of relief once that’s over. Until then, fuel for wild-eyed screeds against the product needs to come from somewhere. Religious and moral...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and dugouts of the national pastime. More than two dozen members of the coalition group Faith United Against Tobacco wrote May 30 to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 19, 2009 | Opinion
North Carolina is among the states that are looking at “sin taxes” as a relatively easy means for increasing revenue – easy, so long as they can get by the powerful tobacco and alcohol lobbies. There’s just one thing wrong with sin taxes – they...
by Bob Allen and Chasity Ann Gunn | Feb 10, 2004 | News
Forty years after the first U.S. Surgeon General’s report linking tobacco to lung cancer, a large percentage of Americans are still smokers. When U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the watershed report in January 1964 that smoking causes cancer and other...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 28, 2002 | News
It’s difficult to see through the smoke surrounding Lorillard Tobacco Company’s recent lawsuit against the anti-smoking American Legacy Foundation. Lorillard, the nation’s fourth largest cigarette maker, sued ALF in Wake County Superior Court in...