When, in April of 1983, Pat Boyle first heard the words "baby-snuffing," he was shocked. It was not a concept that, even as a police officer, ever had crossed his mind. He came from a good Irish ...

“It’s killing me,” Darlene Webb tells me. She and her husband Jon are the owners and proprietors of J.R. Smoke Shop in Hillsdale, Michigan. For the American right’s young best and brightest, their ...

Quitting smoking is easy, lots of people say. It’s quitting meals, mornings, coffee, alcohol and sex that’s tough. Nicotine packs a double whammy: It addicts not only physically, but psychologically: ...

Earlier this week, CVS Caremark, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain, announced that it would be taking cigarettes off of its shelves. CVS said it would phase out tobacco products at all of ...

The hair of mummies from the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile reveals the people in the region had a nicotine habit spanning from at least 100 B.C. to A.D. 1450. Subscribe to read this story ...