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ATLANTA (AP) — In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products. The new effort confronts a hard truth: Despite...

A fight over roll-your-own cigarettes is heating up in Richmond. New machines in a growing number of shops have gotten the attention of Virginia's cigarette makers. The issue is now lighting up the legislature. The customer dumps the loose tobacco,...

The customer dumps the loose tobacco, loads the paper tubes, punches a few buttons on a touch screen and the RYO Filling Station comes to life, cranking out the finished cigarettes It’s easy to see why shops like Tobacco Direct have become...

Several states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...

The parent companies of Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported nearly $9 million in contributions to the campaign against Proposition 29, the June ballot measure that would hike cigarette taxes by $1 per pack....

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost...

A majority of production and maintenance workers for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. have voted against union representation, the company said Friday. The subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. said that a preliminary count of ballots cast show workers chose not...

The nation's top tobacco companies are spending less money on cigarette advertising and promotion and more money on promoting smokeless tobacco products, according to the latest data from the Federal Trade Commission. The data mirrors an industry trend...

A warehousing operation where hundreds of farmers from throughout the region bring their crop to sell to the country's largest tobacco companies is moving from Lebanon to Danville later this year. Ken Garcia, a spokesman for Philip Morris USA, confirmed...