OZARK — Electronic cigarettes, all the rage overseas, have made it to the Wiregrass. Vaporized cigarettes from China are now distributed by a company in Ozark. Save A Smoker was founded four months ago by three smokers, two of whom have stopped smoking and completely converted to vaping.  More…

Food has to meet certain specifications to be labeled as “light,” but there are no such restrictions on cigarettes. Consumers can read the label to find out the ingredients in shampoo that goes on their hair, but not in the smoke that goes in their lungs. If matters proceed as expected today, the U.S. Senate will pass legislation allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products in ways that it should have been doing for years.  More…

No ifs ands or butts — San Francisco considers cigarette cleanup fee

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom thinks smokers should pay what it costs the city to clean up discarded cigarette butts. …

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Patrons debate probable effects of smoking ban

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JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi lawmakers have approved the first cigarette tax increase in more than two decades. Both chambers on Wednesday passed the final version of a bill to raise the excise tax from 18 cents to 68 cents a pack.  More…

BEIJING - A county government in central China has rescinded an order which was intended to make officials smoke more to help the local economy, local authorities said on Tuesday. Functionaries in Gongan county in rural Hubei province had been ordered to smoke at least 23,000 packs of cigarettes a year, worth nearly 4 million yuan ($586,700), to cushion government finances, according to regional media reports.  More…