It's Mad Men, but not boring! I'd watch the shit outta this show. Read… 11/24/13 9:00pm 11/24/13 9:00pm

The Cancer society of Finland has devised a fun slash sick way of showing the effects smoking has on the human body, using flaxen-haired models and a photo slider for "before" and "after" examples. Read… 10/22/13 6:00pm 10/22/13 6:00pm

Fire up the gaffe signal; the President said something unscripted! Yesterday, during an "hot mic" moment at the UN General Assembly, our Commander-In-Chief Barack Hussein Bengazi Obamacare Bailout Obama confessed to an official that he hasn't had a cigarette in six years because he's "scared" of his wife. Either First… Read… 9/24/13 12:00pm 9/24/13 12:00pm

The CDC's graphic television spots —featuring personal stories from people dealing with the horrifying physical consequences of smoking cigarettes — have effectively freaked people out enough to make them quit. Read… 9/10/13 1:20pm 9/10/13 1:20pm

Smoking occasionally causes cancer in those who choose to do it and metastatic sanctimony in those who choose not to. To prevent both of these tragic social diseases, governments have jacked up the price of a pack and made it all but impossible to smoke indoors. Now, they're going after outdoor spaces, too, and soon… Read… 8/08/13 7:00pm 8/08/13 7:00pm

The amazing thing about nicotine addiction: It's an addiction! Like, you feel like you can't stop no matter how much you want to! The second amazing thing about nicotine addiction: People who have never been addicted to cigarettes (or smoked significantly less than you before they quit) cannot fundamentally understand… Read… 6/08/13 2:00pm 6/08/13 2:00pm

Alongside city health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Council speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn has proposed a measure that would raise the legal age to buy cigarettes in New York City from 18 years old to 21. Cue smoking teens everywhere angrily asking, "What is this, a police state?" Read… 4/23/13 12:00pm 4/23/13 12:00pm

It's been a long time since we heard anything other than cuckoo Tweets from CLC. And you know what? This ad is fucking awesome. Thanks NJOY. And thank you, Courtney Love. Fuck yeah. Read… 4/02/13 2:10pm 4/02/13 2:10pm

This is a clever — if most likely completely ineffective — ad effort from Ontario Ministry of Health's "Quit the Denial" campaign that aims to get folks to stop smoking. Obviously, the idea is that the woman is in total denial that her flatulence is a problem — after all, she only does it socially! The ad is funny and … Read… 3/19/13 10:00am 3/19/13 10:00am

Happy Birthday to Clara Cowell, a 102-year-old English woman that the Surgeon General probably doesn't want you to hear about. You see, Cowell has been smoking for about 82 of those years, and she's in damn good health. Read… 2/18/13 9:30am 2/18/13 9:30am

Yes, you know you should quit smoking. Your mom, your friends and people on the street tell you all the time and now you're gonna get it from me — you should probably quit smoking because, as it turns out, it's even worse for women than previously thought. Read… 1/24/13 11:50am 1/24/13 11:50am

Honestly, I was getting worried, because what was I supposed to do with a unisex e-cigarette that doesn't feature discotheque-purple and Monotype Corsiva script on the box? Bang it on the table? Make a sandwich with it? I don't knowww. Read… 12/26/12 11:25am 12/26/12 11:25am

Hardly revelatory news that cigarettes are bad for you, but UK researchers have found new data after completing their One Million Women Study, published in The Lancet: quit before you're 30, or even 40, and you'll tack another 10 years onto your life. 1.2 million women aged 50 to 69 participated in the study, which… Read… 10/27/12 12:30pm 10/27/12 12:30pm

I have always been a huge nerd, which is why I pretty much didn't even look at a cigarette until I was like 22—and even then it was just to deliver some morally superior sniffs about how some of us don't have to suck on a stanky Duraflame log just to have a good time. Some of us have ancient Greek city-states to… Read… 9/10/12 4:00pm 9/10/12 4:00pm

You know what? Fuck it. I'm calling it. Everyone just do whatever you want. We're all going to die, we're all going to get cancer, and with a new study coming out every day about some other seemingly innocuous thing that's methodically dissolving your brain, I say we all find a hot tub somewhere and chill out. Read… 8/14/12 7:00pm 8/14/12 7:00pm

Teen obesity is the panic du jour, but, as Tina Rosenberg reports for the New York Times, "it may be even more important to attack teenage smoking than obesity." The problem is that the health hazard messages and PSAs made for adults just don't reach kids. Read… 8/01/12 11:50am 8/01/12 11:50am

Look, talking about bowel health isn't pleasant, which is why it's relegated to squeamish doctor's visits, euphemistic Pepto Bismol ads scored by fart symphonies, and the pencil-mustachioed, infomercial snake oil purveyor Klee Irwin, but we need to talk about it because, well, it's important. It's especially important… Read… 7/23/12 9:15pm 7/23/12 9:15pm

Teens these days may seem like ne'er-do-wells, with all of their sexting and terribly bland pop music, but it turns out, according to a new CDC survey, that they're actually behaving themselves for the most part. For starters, smoking is way down. In 1991, 70 percent of kids had tried a cigarette, but by last year that … Read… 6/08/12 9:30am 6/08/12 9:30am

Just when you thought his charms couldn't get anymore dangerous, Jean Dujardin introduces you to a new brand of cigarettes—and suddenly you're hooked. Read… 3/07/12 9:05pm 3/07/12 9:05pm

While the teen pregnancy rate plummets, American adolescents are occupying their spare time with a different sort of mischief: marijuana smoking. To put it in terms of terrible puns: they may be much less likely to have a bun in the oven, but that doesn't mean that they're not baked. Read… 12/14/11 7:15pm 12/14/11 7:15pm

In the past decade or so life for smokers has changed drastically. In many areas they're forced to stand 10 feet from buildings and prohibited from lighting up in parks and beaches. This restored the non-smokers' right to not stand in a cloud of carcinogens, but now some European doctors have come up with a new… Read… 11/17/11 11:54pm 11/17/11 11:54pm

It's widely known that if you're well-educated and making a good living, you live longer than if you're poor and haven't had a lot of schooling. But researchers have found that certain groups of people are exceptions to this rule: Immigrants, and people of Hispanic decent. Read… 10/06/11 1:25pm 10/06/11 1:25pm

It may not seem like a weight-loss tool, but apparently marijuana smokers are thinner than people who don't smoke. Read… 9/03/11 5:55pm 9/03/11 5:55pm

You're probably aware that starting the day by rolling out of bed and having a cigarette isn't good for you, but Penn State researchers say it may be even worse than you think. A study of 7,610 smokers found that smoking in the first 30 minutes after waking nearly doubles the risk of developing lung cancer. Another… Read… 8/09/11 10:10am 8/09/11 10:10am