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The new head of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco agency pledged "efficient, effective and fair" regulation of tobacco products Thursday. "You all make a lawful product," Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA's Center For Tobacco Products, told...

Altria Group Inc.'s top executive told shareholders Thursday that the company expects to post better results this year after a good year in 2012. "Altria delivered strong results and returns for our shareholders in 2012," despite a "continuing...

Reynolds American Inc. was prodded by farm worker advocates Thursday to go beyond just pledging to improve health and labor conditions on North Carolina tobacco farms. The company provided its latest update on farm worker negotiations and initiatives at...

The Link Apartments Manchester project has been certified to the National Green Building Standard, a national third-party verification benchmark of sustainable construction and development. The smoke-free development south of the James River is the...

By Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Some of the US's biggest brand names raced to the market on Monday to lock in tight pricing on their deals before Apple comes to the market with its jumbo offering. A total of USD6.725bn was raised...

There's a lot of money in the trash business. Just ask the Maine Legislature. For the past three months, the media spotlight has been trained on several hot-button topics, including the state's next two-year budget, Medicaid expansion and using a...

No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city.     New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...

HAMPTON — Two City Council members say Hampton's city manager has backed off her prior assertion that a "gift" from a private entity provided funding for an undercover police company created to go after cigarette bootleggers. In a Sept. 27 email...

HAMPTON — One day in the spring of 2010, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) approached the Hampton Police Division about working with him on undercover cigarette stings. That agent, Clifford D....