tobacco

The New Bedford City Council will create a special committee to explore the possibility of allowing smoke shops to offer on-site consumption of tobacco products, such as cigars and hookah.

It's good news that many middle school kids aren't smoking traditional cigarettes as much anymore. Instead, they've swapped a Marlboro for an e-cigarette! Federal data just found a sharp increase in e-cigarette use among teenagers, which tripled among middle and high school students from 2013 to 2014...

Health officials in a small Massachusetts town have withdrawn a first-in-the-nation proposal to ban all tobacco sales. Westminster's board of health voted 2-1 at its regular meeting Wednesday to drop the proposal, a week after rowdy opposition led them to end a public hearing early...

Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling says he's battling mouth cancer and blames 30 years of chewing tobacco use. Schilling discussed details of his cancer on WEEI-FM in Boston on Wednesday. He announced he had cancer in February, but had not disclosed what kind...