Smoking Archives

Social Justice

The Trippy New Era: Returning to Hallucinogens as a Treatment for Addiction

LSD, ecstasy, and magic mushrooms are helping people face death, cope with trauma, and quit booze and smokes. Can these drugs revolutionize addiction treatment, or is it all just tangerine trees and marmalade skies?

Kelly Bourdet

Social Justice

How to Stay Healthy Even if You Can’t Avoid Stress on the Job

One researcher, who recognized that avoiding stress at work was, for some, completely unrealistic, went looking for alternatives.

Genevra Pittman

Education

Do School Programs Keep Kids From Smoking?

Certain school-based programs that aim to keep kids from smoking cigarettes seem to work, according to a fresh look at some past research.

Andrew Seaman

Economics

All the Cigarettes in the World

Click to enlarge H.L. Mencken’s American Mercury once called cigarettes “the most democratic commodity in common use.” While…

Matt Skenazy

Social Justice

Cigarettes Do Have Free Speech Rights

A federal judge says tobacco companies’ complaints about the heavy hand of government forcing them to gainsay their own products have merit.

Michael Todd

News in Brief

Assessing Cigarettes’ Right to Free Speech

How far can federal regulators go in cramming ugly — if accurate — messages onto packs of cigarettes over the objections of the tobacco companies that sell them?

Emily Badger

Environment

Can Cigarette Butts Be Recycled?

A San Diego innovator pays $3 a pound for cigarette butts. But whatever can you recycle them into?

Matt Skenazy

Economics

Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Be Counterproductive

New warning labels will begin to adorn cigarette packs and advertisements. For some smokers, death-related warnings actually increase cigarettes' appeal.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Sticking to Your Resolutions, With Uncle Sam

USA.gov has tapped guidance from across government agencies to help you keep that New Year's Resolution to manage your debt better, or quit smoking, or drink less alcohol.

Emily Badger