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Last year, just 8.5% of retailers sold tobacco products illegally to kids—that's almost 80% down since 1997. MORE
Experts say that interactive smoking simulators on phones may be more harmful than advertising. MORE
Montana's Supreme Court rules there is no right to medical pot, the Czech Republic bans hard liquor sales after deaths, and Britney Spears avoids alcohol on X Factor. MORE
Smokers with a "long horizon" are more likely to put down the habit, study finds. MORE
High schoolers will smoke if their friends do, and all the popular kids are doing it, study finds. MORE
Tobacco use still soars in poor and middle-income countries, Mexico's drug war deaths may be slowing, and Princeton ranks in top 20 "Party Schools." MORE
An exciting new way to defend the body from nicotine addiction uses "Pac-Man-like" antibodies. MORE
Although they're seen as harmless fun, water pipes can be more dangerous than cigarettes. MORE
By Bryan Le
In a scathing newspaper letter, prominent expert David Nutt accuses the British Lung Foundation of scaremongering on cannabis and cancer. MORE
American teens are now more likely to smoke marijuana than cigarettes, believing it to be less unhealthy. MORE
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