Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Samuels is the Founder/CEO of Wellworth healthcare advisory firm. A cigarette lit on screen once symbolized noir, danger and ...

If you've ever turned on the TV to see a harrowing story of a person with a hole in their throat warning against the dangers of smoking, you witnessed an ad by the Tips From Former Smokers campaign.

If there is one disclaimer – which is as well-known as it is overlooked – it most likely is the disclaimer related to smoking. Despite decades of global anti-smoking campaigns, cigarette consumption ...

Smoking rates in the United States are at historic lows and fewer people are dying from tobacco-related lung cancer — in part because the federal government has pumped millions of dollars into ...

In a campaign dominated by political clashes and competing promises, Prime Minister Robert Abela and Opposition Leader Alex ...

After decades of campaigns to enforce indoor smoking bans, Shanghai is now moving to try and stop residents lighting up in outdoor public spaces as part of a wider effort to turn the city into a smoke ...

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Smoking continues to rank as the foremost preventable cause of premature death. In a paper published this week in the ...

The copy on all three ads reads, “Smoking means being a slave to tobacco.” The campaign—which features two boys and a girl—equates smoking with sucking off creepy old men, i.e. the cigarette company ...

The United States has seen an impressive drop in cigarette smoking over the past several decades, a shift that holds important lessons for public health. In 1955, more than half of American adults ...